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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory

Dante Alighieri · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

FormatEbook
Published1997
Words37,853
LanguageEnglish
ReadingIncluded
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Purgatory is the second part of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's verse translation, depicting the soul's ascent through the terraces of Mount Purgatory. It suits readers of medieval literature, poetry in translation, and those studying Christian allegory and mythology.
Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

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