Dante's THE DEVINE COMEDY - illustrated by GUSTAV DORE!

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THE DIVINE COMEDY by Dante Alighieri Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED by Gustav Dore ~BRAND NEW~ A Beautiful, LEATHER BOUND Gift Edition! 712 pages ... 135 full-page illustrations! This complete and unabridged Library of Literary Classics edition is bound in burgundy red GENUINE BONDED LEATHER and features LUXURIOUS GOLD stamping on the intricately etched cover and hubbed spine! Other features include: sewn-in gold satin ribbon pagemarker, page edges gilded in radiant gold, and raised cover art of Dante and Beatrice by Cathie Bleck synopsis: A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, sin, damnation, and forgiveness through a series of unforgettable experiences and encounters. An investigation of God's Nature...reason and faith join at the center of the human quest for truth - the truth they find is God's Will. "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark For the straightforward pathway had been lost." (Inferno, Canto I) With these words, Dante plunges his readers into the unforgettable world of the INFERNO - one of the most graphic visions of Hell ever written, in the first part of this epic "The Divine Comedy". , Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of hell, w he travels through nightmarish landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood, and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn into pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating figures known to the medieval world: the silver-tongued Ulysses, the lustful Francesca da Rimini, the tical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and nefarious characters. In the second volume, Purgatory, Dante contemplates the origins of sin as he struggles to climb the terraces of Mount Purgatory on his arduous journey toward God, and toward the earthly paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin". All the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. Dante becomes the universal poet...sublime, grim, intellectual, simple, humorous, tender, and ecstatic. The third volume, Paradiso, or Paradise, features one of the most sublime, luminous, and exciting visions in all of literature...that of Heaven itself! Having climbed the mountain of Purgatory, Dante begins to ascend to the heights of the universe with his beloved Beatrice as his guide. Together they soar through the nine sps of Heaven...the moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the stars, and the Prime Mover. Along the way Dante meets people that he had known on earth, who now appear as dazzling jewels, and many others whom he had always wanted to meet, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Bonaventure, and his own great-great grandfather. Finally Dante reaches Heaven, w incredibly beautiful scenes...brilliant lights and colors and flowering gardens...unfold before his eyes, and always accompanied by celestial music. Heaven, he learns, is not a place of boring rest, but one of joyful activity, dancing and singing, and endless movement and surprises! A poem of true heroic fulfillment, Paradiso stands as literature's greatest hymn to the divine glory of God! Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dante's Divine Comedy is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest literary works of Homer and Shakespeare. This edition of The Divine Comedy features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's renowned translation and is also profusely and magnificently illustrated by one of the greatest artists t... read more

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