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Dante Alighieri


CIRCLES OF HELL

Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick

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This selection published in Penguin Classics 2015

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ISBN: 978-0-141-98023-2

Contents

Canto III – Gates of Hell

Canto V – The lustful

Canto VI – The gluttonous

Canto VIII – The wrathful and the melancholic

Canto XIII – The violent against self

Canto XVII – Passage to the Eighth Circle

Canto XIX – Simonists

Canto XXIV – Thieves

Canto XXXIII – Traitors to nation and traitors to guests

Canto XXXIV – Traitors to benefactors

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DANTE ALIGHIERI

Born 1265, Florence, Italy

Died 1321, Ravenna, Italy

Dante wrote the Divina Commedia between 1308 and 1321. This selection of cantos is taken from Inferno translated by Robin Kirkpatrick, Penguin Classics, 2006.

DANTE IN PENGUIN CLASSICS

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

The Divine Comedy

Vita Nuova

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