Dante Alighieri
21) A Divina Comédia
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Escrito enquanto o autor encontrava-se exilado de Florença, sua cidade natal, devido a rixas políticas, o poema narrado em primeira pessoa retrata Dante como um protagonista peregrino, uma espécie de cidadão do mundo representante do homem medieval espremido entre a cultura clássica e a tradição cristã, em busca da excelência moral e espiritual. Levado pela mão do poeta latino Virgílio, autor da Eneida, o personagem Dante conhece o inferno...
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Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough-and it is! If you can understand it! If you don't understand it, then you are not alone.
If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin.
The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text.
We all need refreshers every now and...
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A mitad del camino de la vida se halla Dante, un poeta abstraído y temperamental (en sus propias palabras), que emprende un largo viaje en compañía de Virgilio, su maestro. Le aguardan numerosas aventuras: desde una aterradora tesitura con tres bestias salvajes y hambrientas al acecho hasta las conversaciones que entabla con personajes de lo más variopinto para escuchar su historia y, en cierto modo, desentrañar la suya. Un apasionante recorrido...
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A story about travelling through hell. Sounds thrilling, right? And it is! But, it was also written hundreds of years ago... in another language.
If you are struggling to get through Inferno or if you just want a bit more context, then this book is for you!
Inside you will find summaries of each Canto, overview of themes and characters, and even a modern version of the book (right next to the original text, so you can read it together)!
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Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece.
The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the...
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Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting...
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Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern English. This translation could easily be read and understood by today's reader.
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Sublime poetic masterpiece recounting the poet's allegorical journey through the afterlife follows Dante through the infernal regions of Hell, where punishment is determined by gravity of sinner's transgressions, through Purgatory where souls are atoning for their misdeeds and to the entrance to Paradise, where he meets his beloved Beatrice.