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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

Dante Alighieri

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 177 pages

Dante's Inferno is the first part of his Divine Comedy, a narrative poem in which the poet travels through the nine circles of Hell. Guided by Virgil, he meets souls whose punishments reflect their sins, from limbo to the deepest regions. Longfellow's translation preserves the formal verse and offers a classic medieval journey of moral reflection.

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Opening of the book

The Divine Comedy

of Dante Alighieri

Translated by

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

INFERNO

Contents

Canto I. The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the

Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil.

Canto II. The Descent. Dante’s Protest and Virgil’s Appeal. The

Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.

Canto III. The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope

Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The Earthquake and the

Swoon.

Canto IV. The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the

Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The

Noble Castle of Philosophy.

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Contents

  1. The Divine Comedy
  2. of Dante Alighieri
  3. Contents
  4. Inferno: Canto I
  5. Inferno: Canto II
  6. Inferno: Canto III
  7. Inferno: Canto IV
  8. Inferno: Canto V
  9. Inferno: Canto VI
  10. Inferno: Canto VII
  11. Inferno: Canto VIII
  12. Inferno: Canto IX
  13. Inferno: Canto X
  14. Inferno: Canto XI
  15. Inferno: Canto XII
  16. Inferno: Canto XIII
  17. Inferno: Canto XIV
  18. Inferno: Canto XV
  19. Inferno: Canto XVI
  20. Inferno: Canto XVII
  21. Inferno: Canto XVIII
  22. Inferno: Canto XIX
  23. Inferno: Canto XX
  24. Inferno: Canto XXI
  25. Inferno: Canto XXII
  26. Inferno: Canto XXIII
  27. Inferno: Canto XXIV
  28. Inferno: Canto XXV
  29. Inferno: Canto XXVI
  30. Inferno: Canto XXVII

and 8 more chapters

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