Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world history. His brilliant epic, "The Divine Comedy", an imagined journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

As one of the supreme Christian epic poems, Dante's Divine Comedy provides not only far more personality and emotional depth than the pagan epics, it also opens

Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the mod