The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Published on 26. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-0-14-310719-4 (ISBN)
Description
A stunning three-in-one Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of one of the great works of Western literature. An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and furnished with semi-autobiographical details, this acclaimed blank verse translation is published here for the first time in a one-volume edition.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Rough front
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 53 mm
Weight
775 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-310719-4 (9780143107194)
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Persons
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was born in Florence and is considered Italy's greatest poet. It is believed that The Divine Comedy was written between 1308 and 1320. Robin Kirkpatrick is a professor of Italian and English literature at the University of Cambridge and has written a number of books on Dante and on the Renaissance. Eric Drooker is an award-winning painter and graphic novelist who has illustrated dozens of covers for the New Yorker and designed the animation for the film Howl, based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg. He lives in Berkeley, California.