The Inferno - Dante Alighieri (Illustrated) (Bentley Loft Classics Book #72)

by Dante Alighieri

Overview

Bentley Loft Classics is proud to present The Inferno by Dante Alighieri complete with illustrations and Active Table of Contents:

Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through what is largely the medieval concept of Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013815230
Publisher:	Bentley Loft
Publication date:	12/09/2011
Series:	Bentley Loft Classics Collection , #72
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante (IT: /'dante/; UK: /ˈdænti/; US: /ˈdɑːnteɪ/; 1265–1321), was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy). 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.

In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language".