The vision of hell

The vision of hell

by Dante Alighieri
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Publication Date: 20/11/2019

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The Vision of Hell, or Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen." Excerpt: "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It was no easy task, how savage wild That forest…"

ISBN:
4057664183484
4057664183484
Category:
Poetry
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-11-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
GoodPress
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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