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Divine Comedy Longfellow's Translation Hell - cover

Divine Comedy Longfellow's Translation Hell

Dante Alighieri

Translator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. The poem's inventive visual sense of the afterlife is typical of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th century. Excerpt:
"Day was departing, and the embrowned air
Released the animals that are on earth
From their fatigues; and I the only one
Made myself ready to sustain the war,
Both of the way and likewise of the woe,
Which memory that errs not shall retrace.
O Muses, O high genius, now assist me!
O memory, that didst write down what I saw,
Here thy nobility shall be manifest!"
Available since: 11/20/2019.
Print length: 180 pages.

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