The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

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Book in Italian

Rizzoli BUR Great classics

At the exact center of our culture lies "The Divine Comedy". A masterpiece in three songs - Hell, Purgatory and Paradise - unanimously considered among the most extraordinary creations in the history of humanity. Having reached the halfway point of his existence, a man is able to visit the afterlife alive: this is the simple and ingenious idea from which Dante's fresco takes shape. His representation of heaven and earth is inspired by the characteristic ways of medieval literature and style but at the same time proves to be profoundly revolutionary. A new and disenchanted perception of History in a story that spans the course of the centuries, testifying to a profound understanding of human reality. An immense architecture, a cathedral of verses built to tell the noble and ignoble of every creature, victory and defeat, drama and tenderness. Dante's otherworldly journey is the perfect metaphor for every human adventure, always poised between magnificence and misery, between loss and redemption.

Introduction by Bianca Garavelli. Notes by Lodovico Magugliani.

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Description

Book in Italian

Rizzoli BUR Great classics

At the exact center of our culture lies "The Divine Comedy". A masterpiece in three songs - Hell, Purgatory and Paradise - unanimously considered among the most extraordinary creations in the history of humanity. Having reached the halfway point of his existence, a man is able to visit the afterlife alive: this is the simple and ingenious idea from which Dante's fresco takes shape. His representation of heaven and earth is inspired by the characteristic ways of medieval literature and style but at the same time proves to be profoundly revolutionary. A new and disenchanted perception of History in a story that spans the course of the centuries, testifying to a profound understanding of human reality. An immense architecture, a cathedral of verses built to tell the noble and ignoble of every creature, victory and defeat, drama and tenderness. Dante's otherworldly journey is the perfect metaphor for every human adventure, always poised between magnificence and misery, between loss and redemption.

Introduction by Bianca Garavelli. Notes by Lodovico Magugliani.

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