The Divine Comedy Library edition

Description

This is to purchase a Castalia Library edition of THE DIVINE COMEDY by Dante Alighieri.

FEATURES

• Genuine Italian cowhide binding
• 22k gold spine
• Gilded front cover
• Gilded page edges
• Archival-quality paper
• New and original layout by cantos
• Features the 1867 translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Includes six sonnets written by Longfellow about the Comedy
• Interior woodcuts from the 1497 Venetian edition by Pietro Quarengi
• A timeless literary classic

Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain,
What exultations trampling on despair,
What tenderness, what tears, what hate of wrong,
What passionate outcry of a soul in pain,
Uprose this poem of the earth and air,
This mediæval miracle of song!