
Popular edition. With critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante, and chronology.
Full title
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.
Language
en
Duration
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Cassell & Company, Limited: London, Paris & Melbourne. 1892.
Release date
2004-08-07
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1265–1321
Best known for The Divine Comedy, this medieval Italian poet helped shape the Italian language and created one of literature’s most unforgettable journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Exiled from Florence for much of his adult life, he turned personal loss and political turmoil into poetry that still feels vivid centuries later.
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