The divine comedy

R$ 55,90

Sinopse

This book is translated by H. F. Cary. It comes with an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work. "The Comedy" tells of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three realms of the Christian afterlife: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. He presents a vision of the afterlife which is strikingly original in its conception, with a complex architecture and a coherent structure. On this journey Dante's protagonist - and his reader - meet characters who are variously noble, grotesque, beguiling, fearful, ridiculous, admirable, horrific and tender, and through them he is shown the consequences of sin, repentance and virtue, as he learns to avoid Hell and, through cleansing in Purgatory, to taste the joys of Heaven.

Participantes

Autor: Dante Alighieri

Autor

DANTE ALIGHIERI

Dante Alighieri nasceu em 1265 em Florença, onde viveu a primeira parte da sua vida até ser exilado. O exílio foi ainda maior do que uma simples separação física de sua terra natal. É considerado pelos italianos seu maior poeta. Foi muito mais do que apenas um literato, redigiu um poema, de viés épico e teológico, La Divina Commedia (A Divina Comédia), que se tornou a base da língua italiana moderna e culminou na afirmação do modo medieval de entender o mundo. Faleceu em 1321 em Ravena.