Book 1

The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise By Dante Alighieri. ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE. TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A. Durante degli Alighieri was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.