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1) Inferno
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history?s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante?s Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante?s dark epic poem, Langdon races to...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Divine Comedy is Dante's record of his visionary journey through the triple realms of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. This, the first 'epic' of which its author is the protagonist and his individual imaginings the content, weaves together the three threads of Classical and Christian history; contemporary Medieval politics and religion; and Dante's own inner life including his love for Beatrice, to create the most complex and highly structured long...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1996-2011
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Description
This first volume of this new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Inferno and, on facing pages, a new prose translation (the first in twenty-five years). Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. Martinez and Durling's introduction...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise -- the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
Now, for the first time, John Ciardi's brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante's three...
9) Inferno
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
En el corazaon de Italia, el profesor de simbologaia Robert Langdon es arrastrado a un perturbador mundo centrado en uno de las maas misteriosas obras de la literatura? el Infierno de Dante. Allai, Langdon lucharaa contra un terroraifico adversario y un ingenioso enigma que lo atraparaa en un mundo de arte, pasillos secretos y ciencia futuraistica. Usando el sombraio poema de Dante como referencia, Langdon deberaa encontrar respuestas y decidir en...
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 25
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Angelico Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire consequences would follow, The divine comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. Dante's masterpiece presents a cosmic vision of reality, which he invites...
14) The Dante Club
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1865, the preparations of the Dante Club--led by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes--to release the first translation of Dante's "The Divine Comedy" are threatened by a series of murders that re-create episodes from "Inferno."
15) The gargoyle
Author
Language
English
Description
Awakening in a burn ward after being horribly burned in a terrible car accident, the cynical narrator is visited by a beautiful and enigmatic sculptress of gargoyles who tells him that they had once been lovers in medieval Germany.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will...
18) The dying day
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 2
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. Inspector Persis Wadia unravels a series of cryptic verse clues in search of a 600-year-old copy of Dante's Inferno, which has gone missing along with its caretaker--
