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1) The Inferno
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The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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Escrito enquanto o autor encontrava-se exilado de Florença, sua cidade natal, devido a rixas políticas, o poema narrado em primeira pessoa retrata Dante como um protagonista peregrino, uma espécie de cidadão do mundo representante do homem medieval espremido entre a cultura clássica e a tradição cristã, em busca da excelência moral e espiritual. Levado pela mão do poeta latino Virgílio, autor da Eneida, o personagem Dante conhece o inferno...
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Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough-and it is! If you can understand it! If you don't understand it, then you are not alone.
If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin.
The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text.
We all need refreshers every now and...
4) The Paradiso
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The Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of...
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This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.
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La "Divina Comedia" es la obra cumbre del poeta italiano Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), y fue completada en 1320, un año antes de su muerte. Es considerada por muchos como la primera gran obra italiana y responsable de estandarizar el idioma italiano.
También es reconocida como una joya de la literatura universal. La "Divina Comedia" narra la historia del propio autor en su viaje a través del infierno, el purgatorio y el paraíso, en búsqueda de...
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