Inferno is the first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy,
revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed,
self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This
Penguin Classics edition is translated and edited with an
introduction and notes by Robin Kirkpatrick. Describing Dante's
descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide,
Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are
condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven
deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of
increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls
including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide
Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit.
Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil
to the deepest level of all. Portraying a huge diversity of
characters culminating in a horrific vision of Satan, the Inferno
broke new ground in the vigour of its language and storytelling. It
has had a particular influence on Modernist writers and their
successors throughout the world. Printed in English with facing
pages in Dante's Italian, this edition offers commentaries and
notes on each canto by Robert Kirkpatrick. Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321), scion of a Florentine family, mastered in the art of
lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova
(1292) an exercise in sonnet form constructed as a tribute to
Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. It is believed that
The Divine Comedy - comprised of three canticles, Inferno,
Purgatorio, and Paradiso - was written between 1308 and 1320. If
you enjoyed the Inferno you might like Giovanni Boccaccio's
Decameron, also available in Penguin Classics. 'Kirkpatrick brings
to this English Dante both his perfect knowledge of the Italian and
an extraordinarily good ear in his own language' Professor Piero
Boitani, University of Rome
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