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The Divine Comedy I
Inferno
Dante
Robin Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9780140448955
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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Dante's Inferno describes his descent into Hell midway through his life with the Roman Virgil as his guide, and is unparalleled in its depiction of the tragedy of sin. It is a work inspired by a profound confidence in human nature, yet also expresses Dante's horror at the way individuals can destroy themselves and each other, creating Hell on Earth. A response to the violent society of thirteenth…
Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. For it is only by encountering Satan, in the heart of Hell, that he can truly understand the tragedy of sin.
| ISBN | 0140448950 | | Pages | 576 | | ISBN13 | 9780140448955
(What's this?) | | Part volume | Inferno | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Weight (grammes) | 394 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 30 Mar 2006 | | Series title | Penguin Classics | | Translator | Robin Kirkpatrick | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Library of Congress | PQ | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 851.1 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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"This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation--a deeply informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read." --Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania  Be the first to write a customer review
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