The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by Gustave Doré

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The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

by Gustave Dore (otherwise under Gustave Doré)

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Info:	Dover Publications (1976), Paperback, 141 pages
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These are the images many people think of, when they think of the Inferno.

This is both a good thing - in that they are, of course, wonderful - and a bad - because they are not always particularly faithful to the text. The final image, for instance, bears very little resemblence to the text at all...

Having said that, it is a wonderful book.

tole_lege | Dec 28, 2005 |

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 048623231X, Paperback)

135 fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of one of Dante's most highly regarded works — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise. Includes plates produced for The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. Illustrations accompanied by appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation.

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