The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell
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About This Book
The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the st...
Chapters (40)
- The Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri
- Translated by Charles Eliot Norton
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION.
- AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY.
- HELL.
- CANTO I.
- CANTO II.
- CANTO III.
- CANTO IV.
- CANTO V.
- CANTO VI.
- CANTO VII.
- CANTO VIII.
- CANTO IX.
- CANTO X.
- CANTO XI.
- CANTO XII.
- CANTO XIII.
- CANTO XIV.
- CANTO XV.
- CANTO XVI.
- CANTO XVII.
- CANTO XVIII.
- CANTO XIX.
- CANTO XX.
- CANTO XXI.
- CANTO XXII.
- CANTO XXIII.
- CANTO XXIV.
- CANTO XXV.
- CANTO XXVI.
- CANTO XXVII.
- CANTO XXVIII.
- CANTO XXIX.
- CANTO XXX.
- CANTO XXXI.
- CANTO XXXII.
- CANTO XXXIII.
- CANTO XXXIV.
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