Dante for beginners

193 Pages·2011·178.68 MB·English

by  Dante Alighieri

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®FOR BEGINNERS®
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an imprint of Steerforth Press
Hanover, New Hampshire
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For Beginners LLC
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Danbury, CT 06810 USA
www.forbeginnersbooks.com
Text and Illustrations ©2011 Joe Lee
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
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the publisher.
A For Beginners® Documentary Comic Book
Copyright © 2011
Cataloging-in-Publication information is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN# 978-1-934389-67-6Trade
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For Beginners® and Beginners Documentary Comic Books® are published by
For Beginners LLC.
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1. Florence and the World of the Late
Thirteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. [Dante’s] Childhood and Youth. . . 12
3. Manhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4. Exile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5. La Divina Commedia. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
A. Inferno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
B. Purgatorio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
C. Paradiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
6.Finito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
7. Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
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• He had the face of the “Wicked
Witch of the West,” and by some
reports, the imperious disposi-
tion to match.
• He was a failed politician in his
own city, and was exiled for his
pains.
• He claimed a lifelong love for a
woman with whom he may have
exchanged only a few sentences,
and more often than not, she
treated him with disdain.
• He was born 700 years ago in a
world fraught with petty but
tragic intrigue, common brutal-
ity, and horrendous inquisition,
all performed at the whim of
both a church and state that
met with his approval.
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