A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to make t

An in-depth companion guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy.

The poem discusses "the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward", and describes Dante's trav