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Dante : The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Renowned critic and poet Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's new translation ? his life's work and decades in the making ? presents Dante's entire ep ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Welcome to hell. On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquainta ...Show more
Inferno - A New Translation by Dante Alighieri; Mary Jo Bang (Translator); Henrik Drescher (Illustrator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been renderedStopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto IAward-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the ...Show more
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi ...Show more
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri; D. M. Black (Translator, Introduction by); Robert Harrison (Preface by)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante's great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one's way i ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri; John Ciardi
$66.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Dante through his gift of writing Poetry attempts to share with his readers, his imagined journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). What Dante shares along the way is a commentary about the political and religious conflicts of his time. Dante is a master of Poetica ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively readable lyric poem. Written in the early fourteenth century and completed in 1321, the year of Dante's death, The Divine Comedy is perhap ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Divine Comedy 1 - Hell by Dante Alighieri
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Divine Comedy
Guided by the poet Virgil, the author plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned, who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in his l ...Show more
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners w ...Show more
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
$27.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature.An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally ...Show more