Johan Dante Volgorde van de boeken

La collection Connaître une oeuvre vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir du Purgatoire de La Divine comédie, de Dante, grâce à une fiche de lecture aussi complète que détaillée. La rédaction, claire et accessible, a été confiée à un spécialiste universitaire. Cette fiche de lecture répond à une charte qualité mise en place par une équipe d'enseignants. Ce livre contient la biographie de Dante, la présentation de l'oeuvre, le résumé détaillé, les raisons du succès, les thèmes principaux et l'étude du mouvement littéraire de l'auteur.

Begun about 1307 and completed in 1321, Dante's sublime poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is one of the world's great works of literature, recounting the poet's allegorical journey through the afterlife. Led in his travels by the classical poet Virgil, Dante descends through the infernal regions of Hell, where punishment is determined by the gravity of the sinner's transgressions; ascends the mountain of Purgatory where he finds souls atoning for their misdeeds; and, at the summit, is met by Beatrice, his beloved, at the entrance to Paradise. This dual-language edition includes the unabridged texts of 33 of the original 100 cantos or "songs" (each omitted canto is summarized in the proper place to provide continuity), with excellent new literal English translations on facing pages. Stanley Appelbaum also provides an informative Introduction and footnotes.

This book, first published in 1996, was the first new translation for forty years of Dante's Monarchy, a fascinating work of political theory by one of the world's great poets. Prue Shaw's translation is accompanied by an introduction and notes which provide a complete guide to the text, and place Monarchy in the context of Dante's life and work.

Depicting one man's horrifying journey into the depths of Hell, Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, is a soaring spiritual epic that continues to echo through the centuries with its moving portrayal of human sin and the tragedy of those condemned to eternal damnation.