The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, ParadisoThis convenient single-volume edition contains all three parts of Dante's fourteenth century poem―Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso―in an acclaimed translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Combining classical and Christian history as well as medieval politics and religion, this trilogy of sublime verse is among Western civilization's most important artistic works and essential reading for students of literature and history. |
Contents
canto page | 7 |
The Gate of Hell The Inefficient or Indifferent | 14 |
The Second Circle Minos The Wanton | 21 |
The Fourth Circle Plutus The Avaricious | 28 |
Inferno and its Divisions | 41 |
Phlegethon The Violent against their | 44 |
XVI | 58 |
Peculators The Elder | 75 |
Dantes Dream of the Siren The Fifth Circle | 333 |
XXII | 344 |
XXIV | 351 |
Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo Daniello | 358 |
The Terrestrial Paradise The River Lethe | 369 |
The Tree of Knowledge | 377 |
The River Eunoë | 384 |
NOTES | 391 |
Agnello Brunelleschi Buoso degli Abati | 89 |
Alchemists Griffolino | 104 |
The Giants Nimrod Ephialtes and Antæus | 111 |
Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri | 118 |
NOTES | 129 |
Contents | 267 |
The Slothful | 326 |
of the Church St Thomas Aquinas 579 St Thomas Aquinas recounts the Life | 590 |
or that of the Fixed Stars 622 The Triumph of Christ 626 St Peter examines Dante upon Faith 630 St James examines Dante upon Hope 634 St John e... | 630 |
XXVI | 637 |
to the Ninth Heaven or the Primum Mobile 641 God and the Celestial Hierarchies | 644 |
The White Rose of Paradise 651 The Glory of Paradise St Bernard 655 St Bernard points out the Saints in | 659 |
NOTES | 669 |