The Inferno

The Inferno
ISBN-10
1853267872
ISBN-13
9781853267871
Series
The Inferno
Category
Hell
Pages
226
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Author
Dante Alighieri

Description

Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.

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