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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri
A journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise — the supreme poem of world literature.

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Written in exile by a disgraced politician, Dante's <em>Divine Comedy</em> became the founding document of Italian literature and one of the most ambitious poems ever composed.

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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · Inferno, Canto I
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CANTO I In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in…

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  2. Inferno, Canto IFree
  3. Inferno, Canto IIFree
  4. Inferno, Canto IIIFree
  5. Inferno, Canto IVFree
  6. Inferno, Canto VFree
  7. Inferno, Canto VIFree
  8. Inferno, Canto VIIFree
  9. Inferno, Canto VIIIFree
  10. Inferno, Canto IXFree
  11. Inferno, Canto XFree
  12. Inferno, Canto XIFree
  13. Inferno, Canto XIIFree
  14. Inferno, Canto XIIIFree
  15. Inferno, Canto XIVFree
  16. Inferno, Canto XVFree
  17. Inferno, Canto XVIFree
  18. Inferno, Canto XVIIFree
  19. Inferno, Canto XVIIIFree
  20. Inferno, Canto XIXFree
  21. Inferno, Canto XXFree
  22. Inferno, Canto XXIFree
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  25. Inferno, Canto XXIVFree
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  27. Inferno, Canto XXVIFree
  28. Inferno, Canto XXVIIFree
  29. Inferno, Canto XXVIIIFree
  30. Inferno, Canto XXIXFree
  31. Inferno, Canto XXXFree
  32. Inferno, Canto XXXIFree
  33. Inferno, Canto XXXIIFree
  34. Inferno, Canto XXXIIIFree
  35. Inferno, Canto XXXIVFree
  36. Purgatorio, Canto IFree
  37. Purgatorio, Canto IIFree
  38. Purgatorio, Canto IIIFree
  39. Purgatorio, Canto IVFree
  40. Purgatorio, Canto VFree
  41. Purgatorio, Canto VIFree
  42. Purgatorio, Canto VIIFree
  43. Purgatorio, Canto VIIIFree
  44. Purgatorio, Canto IXFree
  45. Purgatorio, Canto XFree
  46. Purgatorio, Canto XIFree
  47. Purgatorio, Canto XIIFree
  48. Purgatorio, Canto XIIIFree
  49. Purgatorio, Canto XIVFree
  50. Purgatorio, Canto XVFree
  51. Purgatorio, Canto XVIFree
  52. Purgatorio, Canto XVIIFree
  53. Purgatorio, Canto XVIIIFree
  54. Purgatorio, Canto XIXFree
  55. Purgatorio, Canto XXFree
  56. Purgatorio, Canto XXIFree
  57. Purgatorio, Canto XXIIFree
  58. Purgatorio, Canto XXIIIFree
  59. Purgatorio, Canto XXIVFree
  60. Purgatorio, Canto XXVFree
  61. Purgatorio, Canto XXVIFree
  62. Purgatorio, Canto XXVIIFree
  63. Purgatorio, Canto XXVIIIFree
  64. Purgatorio, Canto XXIXFree
  65. Purgatorio, Canto XXXFree
  66. Purgatorio, Canto XXXIFree
  67. Purgatorio, Canto XXXIIFree
  68. Purgatorio, Canto XXXIIIFree
  69. Paradiso, Canto IFree
  70. Paradiso, Canto IIFree
  71. Paradiso, Canto IIIFree
  72. Paradiso, Canto IVFree
  73. Paradiso, Canto VFree
  74. Paradiso, Canto VIFree
  75. Paradiso, Canto VIIFree
  76. Paradiso, Canto VIIIFree
  77. Paradiso, Canto IXFree
  78. Paradiso, Canto XFree
  79. Paradiso, Canto XIFree
  80. Paradiso, Canto XIIFree
  81. Paradiso, Canto XIIIFree
  82. Paradiso, Canto XIVFree
  83. Paradiso, Canto XVFree
  84. Paradiso, Canto XVIFree
  85. Paradiso, Canto XVIIFree
  86. Paradiso, Canto XVIIIFree
  87. Paradiso, Canto XIXFree
  88. Paradiso, Canto XXFree
  89. Paradiso, Canto XXIFree
  90. Paradiso, Canto XXIIFree
  91. Paradiso, Canto XXIIIFree
  92. Paradiso, Canto XXIVFree
  93. Paradiso, Canto XXVFree
  94. Paradiso, Canto XXVIFree
  95. Paradiso, Canto XXVIIFree
  96. Paradiso, Canto XXVIIIFree
  97. Paradiso, Canto XXIXFree
  98. Paradiso, Canto XXXFree
  99. Paradiso, Canto XXXIFree
  100. Paradiso, Canto XXXIIFree
  101. Paradiso, Canto XXXIIIFree

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