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Paradise

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ISBN-10: 0679642692

ISBN-13: 9780679642695

Edition: 2004

Authors: Dante, Anthony Esolen, Gustave Dore, Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore

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The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot.  "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach." The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order.  Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God. "A…    
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Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.11" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.386

Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (1265 - 1321), was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later called "Divina" (divine) by Boccaccio hence "Divina Commedia"), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

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