Dante Alighieri

This is the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory. Dante's Monarchy addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organization best suits human nature. It embodies a political vision of startling originality and power, and illuminates the intellectual interests and achievements of one of the world's great poets Prue Shaw's translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes, which provide...

The first part of the epic "The Divine Comedy".

A study of Dante's poem, "The Divine Comedy", with critical commentary and an analysis of the text.

No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and artistry. The theme that Dante treats is universal; it involves the greatest concepts which man has ever attained. Only a genius could find the loftiness of tone and the splendor and variety of images and scenes that are presented in The Divine Comedy.

In his introduction, the translator says: "I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante." The Divine Comedy continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration or for the sheer power of its verse. The first part of the epic, The Inferno, tells how the narrator "loses his way," and finds

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Mickey and friends are performing in a production of Dante's The Divine Comedy.

Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.