Dante's Inferno

By Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot Norton (translator),

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Part one of Dante's masterpiece The Divine Comedy, designed with a smaller format for easy portability.

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Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, by many accounts, is the most accurate and true portrayal of Hell. It has been long speculated whether or not Dante, by means of dreaming or some other metaphysical affair, was truly able to visit Hell—the ways in which he describes the deadly sins of human life proves to be both very emotional and very comprehendible, in a way that can push one to both care more for the way that they choose to live, care more for the ways that they treat others, as well as understand the burdens of life and thus realize that…

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