| Description |
[xxv], 397 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface / Matthew Pearl -- Introduction / Lino Pertile -- The Dark Forest -- The Hill of Difficulty -- The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf -- Virgil -- Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal -- The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight -- The Gate of Hell -- The Inefficient or Indifferent -- Pope Celestine V -- The Shores of Acheron -- Charon -- The Earthquake and the Swoon -- The First Circle -- Limbo, or the Border Land of the Unbaptized -- The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan -- The Noble Castle of Philosophy -- The Second Circle -- Minos -- The Wanton -- The Infernal Hurricane -- Francesca da Rimini -- The Third Circle -- Cerberus -- The Gluttonous -- The Eternal Rain -- Ciacco -- The Fourth Circle -- Plutus -- The Avaricious and the Prodigal -- Fortune and her Wheel -- The Fifth Circle -- Styx -- The Irascible and the Sullen -- Phlegyas -- Philippo Argenti -- The Gate of the City of Dis -- The Furies -- The Angel -- The City of Dis -- The Sixth Circle -- Heresiarchs -- Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti -- Pope Anastasius -- General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions -- The Minotaur -- The Seventh Circle -- The Violent -- Phlegethon -- The Violent against their Neighbors -- The Centaurs -- Tyrants -- The Wood of Thorns -- The Harpies -- The Violent against themselves -- Suicides -- Pier della Vigna -- Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea -- The Sand Waste -- The Violent against God -- Capaneus -- The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers -- The Violent against Nature. |
| Subject |
Hell -- Poetry.
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Hell. (OCoLC)fst00954747
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Author |
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
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Pearl, Matthew.
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| Added Title |
Inferno. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno. English. Inferno. New York : Modern Library, 2003 (OCoLC)647364445 |
| ISBN |
0812967216 (alk. paper) |
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9780812967210 (alk. paper) |
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