Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed
Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell 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 many doomed souls before he is finally ready to meet the
ultimate evil in the heart of Hell: Satan himself. This new edition
of Inferno includes explanatory notes and illustrations showing the
different layers of hell. Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful translation
is also available in a bilingual Penguin edition, with the original
Italian on facing pages, and in a complete edition of The Divine
Comedy with an introduction and other editorial materials. Dante
Alighieri was born in 1265. He studied at the university of
Bologna, married at the age of twenty and had four children. His
first major work was La Vita Nuova (1292), a tribute to Beatrice
Portinari, the great love of his life who had died two years
earlier. In 1302, Dante's political activism resulted in his being
exiled from Florence. After years of wandering, he settled in
Ravenna and in about 1307 began writing The Divine Comedy. Dante
died in 1321. Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet and widely-published
Dante scholar. He has taught courses on Dante's Divine Comedy in
Hong Kong, Dublin and Cambridge, where is Fellow of Robinson
College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures. 'The
perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism...likely to be the
best modern version of Dante' - Bernard O'Donoghue
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