In this ground-breaking book, Alison Milbank explains why a comprehension of the Victorian reception of Dante is essential for a full understanding of Victorianism as a whole. Her focus on this much-neglected topic allows her to reconfigure the British nineteenth-century understanding of history, n[...]

Handsome but headstrong, a retired racehorse finds a second chance in this affecting, fast-paced novel told straight from the horse s mouth.
When Dante s Inferno is born early, on a February night, there are already great expectations for him. He may be the grandson of the greatest racehorse in [...]

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Divine Comedy: Inferno takes[...]

Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to make truths known but also for its power to make them loved. It captures centuries of thought on sin, love, community, moral living, God's work in histo[...]

The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes.[...]

Speleobiology, the study of cave life, is a relatively new science. The diversity of species that live in caves, springs, and aquifers is just beginning to be documented, and much of the underground world has yet to be explored. The surveys of cave life reported in this book represent an important s[...]

The Divine Comedy marked nothing less than the arrival of vernacular Italian as a literary language--and Dante's book is still considered Italy's greatest literary achievement. Its highly idiomatic verse, however, has long bedeviled English-language translators. Burton Raffel, whose translation of D[...]

Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Dore
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences.[...]

Many American communities, especially the working and middle class, are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, failing schools, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures, and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, Davi[...]

Although Dante Gabriel Rossetti vacillated between poetry and painting as his chief interest in life, he often succeeded in each of the arts; and despite his disclaimers, the one art often influenced the perception of the other. Even though the poems do not necessarily see like pictures nor the pain[...]

In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its GCGBPthree crownsGC[yen]: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intert[...]

'I know that you're facing a crisis, your eyes tell me so.' With these simple words from an old song, the author takes us on a journey to the desert of trials through the 22nd chapter of the book of Genesis.It is basically dedicated to everyone who has traveled through this desert on a personal, min[...]