A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine Comedy
by Joseph Gallagher
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The Divine Comedy has been a cornerstone of Western literature for the better part of a millennium. In this work, Joseph Gallagher brings the power and prestige of this medieval classic to a new generation of readers--taking them on a guided tour through heaven, purgatory, and hell.(Formerly titled To Hell and Back with Dante)PaperbackTags
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The essays at the end of each canto in Sinclair's prose translations has much and sometimes more of the same information. Gallagher does have good biographical information on Dante.
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- To Hell and Back with Dante
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 851.1 — Literature & rhetoric Italian, Romanian & related literatures Italian poetry Early Italian; Age of Dante –1375
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- PQ4390 .G28 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Italian literature Individual authors and works to 1400
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