The Divine Comedy -Inferno

The Divine Comedy -Inferno

by Dante Alighieri
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Publication Date: 04/06/2013

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Midway upon the journey of our life

I found myself within a forest dark,

For the straightforward pathway had been lost.


Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say

What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,

Which in the very thought renews the fear.


So bitter is it, death is little more;

But of the good to treat, which there I found,

Speak will I of the other things I saw there.


I cannot well repeat how there I entered,

So full was I of slumber at the moment

In which I had abandoned the true way.


But after I had reached a mountain's foot,

At that point where the valley terminated,

Which had with consternation pierced my heart,


Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,

Vested already with that planet's rays

Which leadeth others right by every road.


Then was the fear a little quieted

That in my heart's lake had endured throughout

The night, which I had passed so piteously.


And even as he, who, with distressful breath,

Forth issued from the sea upon the shore,

Turns to the water perilous and gazes;


So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,

Turn itself back to re-behold the pass

Which never yet a living person left.


After my weary body I had rested,

The way resumed I on the desert slope,

So that the firm foot ever was the lower.

ISBN:
9781770431355
9781770431355
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-06-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Norpheus
Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence Italy in 1265. In 1301, a political dispute lead to his exile from Florence.

Over the next few years he made his home in Verona, Lucca and other cities. By 1310 he had written Inferno and Purgatorio, the first two books of his Divine Comedy.

He wrote the third and concluding book, Paradiso, in the years after he found sanctuary in Ravenna in 1318.

An allegorical account of his wanderings in a spiritual wilderness and eventual salvation under the guidance of his beloved Beatrice, The Divine Comedy is recognised as Dante's masterwork and a landmark of world literature. He died in exile in 1321 and was buried in Ravenna.

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