The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy - Hardcover

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The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy - Hardcover

by Dante Alighieri
$24.00
Sale price  $24.00 Regular price 

Book Overview

by Dante Alighieri (Author)

Dante Alighieri's poetic depictions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Gilded Editions line.

Following Dante's journey through the afterlife, The Divine Comedy is a pseudo-autobiographical poetic narrative consisting of three books: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. An in-depth imagining of these celestial kingdoms, The Divine Comedy has been hailed as the "best book literature has achieved" by Jorge Luis Borges and is one of the most influential works of the Italian Renaissance.

Author Biography

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and is considered to be among the country's national poets and the Western world's greatest literary icons. His depictions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature. He influenced English writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and Alfred Tennyson, among many others.

Number of Pages: 576
Dimensions: 1.14 x 7.14 x 5.41 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2026
ISBN9781454965985
Author Dante Alighieri
PublisherUnion Square & Co.
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages576
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Dante Alighieri

ROBERT HOLLANDER taught Dante's Divine Comedy to Princeton students for forty-two years, and is the author of a dozen books and more than seventy articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other Italian authors. He is Professor in European Literature Emeritus at Princeton and the founding director of both the Dartmouth Dante Project and the Princeton Dante Project. He has received many awards, including the gold medal of the city of Florence and the gold florin of the Dante Society of America, in recognition of his work on Dante. JEAN HOLLANDER has taught literature and writing at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the College of New Jersey, where she was director of the Writers' Conference for twenty-three years.

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