The Vision of Hell.: By Dante Alighieri.: Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A.: And Illustrated with the Seventy-Five Designs of Gustave Doré.
The Vision of Hell.: By Dante Alighieri.: Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A.: And Illustrated with the Seventy-Five Designs of Gustave Doré.
Translated by Henry Francis Cary
The most terrifying tour of damnation ever written. In the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark wood, paralyzed between the mountain of salvation and the swamp of despair. Enter Virgil, the Roman poet who will guide him through the nine circles of Hell, descending from the cowards in the first ring to the traitors frozen in ice at the very bottom. Each circle punishes a sin with grotesque precision: the gluttons wallow in filth, the proud are crushed beneath boulders, the wrathful tear each other apart. But this is no mere horror show. Dante constructs Hell as a moral architecture, each punishment a geometrically exact response to the sin committed. The poem asks an unbearable question: what if justice were perfectly rendered? What if every cruelty you inflicted returned to you in kind? Doré's seventy-five wood engravings make this edition a visual masterpiece, capturing both the poem's theological precision and its nightmare imagery. This is Dante's burning conviction rendered in verse: that the cosmos itself judges, and that mercy and damnation are not random but woven into the fabric of existence.
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“Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.””
— Dante Alighieri
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.””
— Dante Alighieri
“Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprendeprese costui de la bella personache mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona...""Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,Seized him with my beautiful formThat was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,took me so strongly with delight in himThat, as you see, it still abandons me not...””
— Dante Alighieri
“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.””
— Dante Alighieri
“They yearn for what they fear for.””
— Dante Alighieri
“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people””
— Dante Alighieri
“From there we came outside and saw the stars””
— Dante Alighieri
“Because your question searches for deep meaning,I shall explain in simple words””
— Dante Alighieri
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away.We must go deeper into greater pain,for it is not permitted that we stay.””
— Dante Alighieri
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