THE ATHENAEUMThe Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
Poetry
The Divine Comedy
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textMidway through his life, in a dark wood, Dante loses his way, and is led down through Hell and up the mountain of Purgatory by Virgil, and through Paradise by Beatrice. He wrote it in exile from Florence, in Italian rather than Latin, early in the fourteenth century. It made the Tuscan he wrote in the model for a whole language.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 7 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #8800. In the public domain in the United States.