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Maria Francesca Rossetti (182776) explains the perplexing universe of the Divine Comedy in this 1871 essay. Including maps of Paradise and the Inferno, invaluable linguistic notes, and beautiful translations by William Rossetti and Henry Longfellow, her exegesis is still among the finest introductions to Dante available today.

Table of Contents
1. Prefatory and introductory; 2. Dante's universe; 3. Dante's life-experience; 4. The wood, and the apparition of Virgil; 5. The hell; 6. Dante's pilgrimage through hell; 7. The purgatory; 8. Dante's pilgrimage through purgatory; 9. The garden of Eden, and the descent of Beatrice; 10. The paradise; 11. Dante's pilgrimage through paradise; Indexes.

A Shadow of Dante

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 6/27/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781108060769
      978-1108060769
      ISBN-10 1108060765
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Maria Francesca Rossetti (182776) explains the perplexing universe of the Divine Comedy in this 1871 essay. Including maps of Paradise and the Inferno, invaluable linguistic notes, and beautiful translations by William Rossetti and Henry Longfellow, her exegesis is still among the finest introductions to Dante available today.

      Table of Contents
      1. Prefatory and introductory; 2. Dante's universe; 3. Dante's life-experience; 4. The wood, and the apparition of Virgil; 5. The hell; 6. Dante's pilgrimage through hell; 7. The purgatory; 8. Dante's pilgrimage through purgatory; 9. The garden of Eden, and the descent of Beatrice; 10. The paradise; 11. Dante's pilgrimage through paradise; Indexes.

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