The first of the 3 canticles in La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures — each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Unabridged republication of the Longfellow translation as published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, in 1886.
The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by Gustave Doré These 135 fantastic scenes depict the passion and grandeur of Dante's masterpiece — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise.
The Divine Comedy Selected Cantos: A Dual-Language Book by Dante, Stanley Appelbaum Sublime poetic masterpiece follows Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Includes unabridged texts of 33 of the original cantos plus summaries of omitted text.
Dante Alighieri : His Life and Works by Paget Toynbee, Robert Hollander This invaluable study is a concise, accessible account which covers historical background, traces the poet's private and public life, and explores the Vita Nuova, the Convivio, the Divine Comedy, and Dante's Latin works.
Paradise Lost by John Milton, John A. Himes First published in 1667, Paradise Lost ranks among the greatest of English literature's epic poems. It's a sublime retelling of Adam and Eve's fall from grace and expulsion from Eden. Notes by John A. Himes.
Italian Stories : A Dual-Language Book by Robert A. Hall, Jr. Eleven great stories in original Italian with vivid, accurate English translations on facing pages, teaching and practice aids, Italian-English vocabulary, more. Boccaccio, Machiavelli, d'Annunzio, Pirandello and Moravia, plus significant works by lesser-knowns.
