The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri : Inferno : a verse translation

In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. Translator Allen Mandelbaum brings to contemporary readers the first and most famous part of Dante's Divine Comedy: the poet's classic journey through the underworld. Here is Dante at his ribald, shocking best as he describes in vivid detail his harrowing descent to the very bottom of Hell. Filled with politics and philosophy, humor and horror, the Inferno is an epic poem at once universal and personal. For as we're led to the last circle of the Inferno, we recognize the very worst in human nature -- and the ever-abiding potential for redemption An Informative Introduction And Commentary Accompany This Classic Translation Of Dante's Epic Poem About A Spiritual Pilgrim Being Led By Virgil Through The Nine Circles Of Hell, Available In A Dual-language Edition. Reissue. Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God. IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.