Dante
Explore Dante's Divine Comedy with our curated list of essential books. Discover Purgatorio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri, masterpieces of fiction that define the epic journey through the afterlife. Ideal for literature lovers and students of classic poetry.
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
The first of the 3 canticles in "La divina commedia "(The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures -- each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
"Purgatorio" is the second installment in Dante's Divine Comedy. It relates in 33 cantos the poet's progress, still with Virgil as his guide, up the mountain of purgatory, where souls must wait to expiate their sins on Earth before they enter heaven.