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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise

by Dante Alighieri

Poetry

Open Library OL36068579W

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Latin Church by the 14th century.

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Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is represented here by 6 public-domain titles, including Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete, Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell, and Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for Dante Alighieri.

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