Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno
Dante Alighieri
The Inferno, the first cantica of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, follows the poet and his guide Virgil through the circles of Hell. Across thirty-four cantos written in the original Italian, their journey examines human choices, punishment, moral responsibility and the possibility of redemption.
Book & edition details
- Original language
- Italian
- Original publication
- 1472
- Edition
- La Divina Commedia: Inferno (original Italian text) · 1997
- Publisher
- Project Gutenberg
- Length
- 32,638 words · about 149 min
- Reader typography
- standard
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