The Inferno (Illustrated) by Dante Alighieri PDF

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The Inferno (Illustrated) by Dante Alighieri PDF

The Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.

Black and white illustrations.
No table of contents available.
Mildly poor (but readable) scan.

Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary.
Illustrated by M. Gustave Doré.
Published by Cassell Publishing Company.
Reproduced by Ohio State University Libraries, 2002.

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