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  • Published: 12 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446484487
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Inferno





'I found myself on the edge of that profound pit of pain/ that reservoir of endless tears.'
Inferno, IV, 8-9

Welcome to Hell.

One evening, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan, where Dante witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned.

Written while Dante was in exile and under threat of being burned at the stake, this dramatic, frightening and, at times, sardonically humorous vision of Hell still has the power to shock and horrify

  • Published: 12 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446484487
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

Dante Dante

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265. When he was nine years old he met Bice Portinari, the Beatrice who inspires both his first work, La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. Beatrice died in 1290. He had at least three children with his wife Gemma di Manetto Donati. His involvement in politics in Florence led to his exile in 1302 and he eventually settled in Ravenna where he died in 1321.

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Praise for Inferno

A tour de force, alive, immediate, energetic and very moving

A.S. Byatt

Energetic, racy, rude and lyrical...buy this translation and spend a damn good season in hell

Independent

Excellent. Dante's vision vibrates again in all its original colour.The effect is dazzling

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