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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Robin Kirkpatrick
RRP: £12.99£9.09Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first timeThe Divine Comedy... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £18.99£14.01Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design... -
Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780141393544
RRP: £7.99£5.79Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for... -
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9781847496119
RRP: £8.99£6.45Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been... -
Paradise by Dante Alighieri 9781847496478
RRP: £8.99£6.45In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in... -
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Barbara Reynolds
RRP: £18.99£14.01One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £19.99£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607109914Author Dante AlighieriPage Count 664Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 38mm -
Circles of Hell by Dante 9780141980225 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.00£1.78'I truly thought I'd never make it back.'Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of... -
Circles of Hell by Dante
RRP: £3.00£2.49'I truly thought I'd never make it back.'Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of... -
Inferno (Collins Classics) by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.' Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common... -
Complete Poems: Dual Language by Guido Cavalcanti
RRP: £10.99£8.68Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural... -
Here by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: £10.99£7.25This is an exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marvelled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators... -
La Vita Nuova: Love Poems by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.51In La Vita Nuova, Italy's greatest poet recounts the famous story of his passionate love for Beatrice. The drama of their relationship unravels through stunning poetry and prose in this, one of the most celebrated love stories in history.Part of the... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio by Robert M. Durling 9780195087451 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£7.86The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio by Robert M. Durling 9780195087451
RRP: £15.99£13.23The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante
RRP: £12.99£9.09Inferno is the first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This Penguin Classics edition is translated and edited with an... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 9780199535644
RRP: £11.99£8.43Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a... -
The Survivor by Primo Levi 9780241339411
RRP: £2.00£1.83'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £14.99£10.98An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original, this Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Italian with an introduction by Mark Musa.This vigorous... -
The Inferno by Dante 9780385496988
RRP: £13.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496988Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.77Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso 9780199535354
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad... -
The Divine Comedy & Paradise by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in... -
Canti: The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £10.99£8.68First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the... -
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£9.99Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and... -
HELL: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray Alasdair Gray 9781786892539
RRP: £14.99£9.80One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling
£16.96This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - 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 its terror, pathos, and... -
PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian'One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date' SpectatorDante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348. The... -
Petrarch in English by Thomas Roche
RRP: £14.99£10.95Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English language versions of his... -
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The Complete Drawings by Sebastian Schutze
£30.33Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey... -
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £12.99£9.09Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: £9.99£7.11Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £7.99£5.79This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux , and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere , Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. ABOUT THE... -
Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £9.99£7.11A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Beatrice, from... -
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo by Buonarroti Michelangelo
RRP: £17.00£16.68Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, and his finest literary efforts are allied with the masterwoks of his visual art, and this translation captures the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both Michelangelo's language and his poetic... -
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Mark Musa
RRP: £7.99£5.79The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled... -
Dante's Divine Trilogy by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £14.99£9.80In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this complete edition brings all three parts of Dante's epic... -
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from...