Dante Alighieri
Summary: In what may be his most ambitious project to date, Merwin has translated, in verse, the central section of Dante's "Divine ComedyQPurgatorio, " a journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where souls are cleansed in preparation for their ultimate ascent to heaven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 DANDante Alighieri
Summary: It is at once a vision of the other world, an allegory of Christian life, a spiritual autobiography, and a cyclopaedic embodiment of all knowledge of its day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 DANDante Alighieri
Summary: "Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise--the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. One of the greatest works in literature, Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hovel Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 851.1 DANDante Alighieri
Summary: "Dante's theme is universal. ... The story is an allegory representing the soul's journey from spiritual depths to spiritual heights. As mankind exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice, it experiences 'Inferno' or hell, 'Purgatorio' or purgatory, and 'Paradiso' or heaven, a vision of a world of beauty, light, and song"--container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007