The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno

by Dante Alighieri and Henry Francis Cary

Robert M. Durling (Introduction), Ronald L. Martinez (Introduction), and Robert Turner (Illustrator)

This is a new prose translation of Dante's epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special subjects at the end of the book.

• ISBN10: 0195087402
• ISBN13: 9780195087406
• Publish Date: 16 May 1996 (first published 29 February 1996)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 672
• Language: English

Reviews

[Melanie]

I listened to this book on CD instead of actually reading it. The version that I had had an explanation at the beginning of each verse to help you understand and then read the verse.

In this book, you travel with Dante through Purgatory and he cleanses himself of the seven deadly sins.

I really liked this book. I forgot how much I liked Greek Mythology (which I expected only because of the Inferno). It has pushed me to look into more mythology again.