The Divine Comedy

Description

With 136 beautiful illustrations and over 700 pages, this is the complete text of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. An epic poem, considered to be one of the greatest works of world literature, it tells the story of Dante's travels through Paradise, Purgatory and Hell. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven. Beatrice was a Florentine woman whom he had met in childhood and admired from afar.

Part of Anne Haight's List of Banned Books.

Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set.

Part of the Harvard Classics set.

This book has 725 pages in the PDF version, and was originally written between 1308 and 1321.

Production notes: This ebook of The Divine Comedy was published by Global Grey in 2018.