Dante's Hel by Dante Alighieri
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"Dante's Hel" by Dante Alighieri is the first part of a 14th-century narrative poem. A fictionalized Dante, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, journeys through Hell's nine concentric circles. Each circle holds souls punished according to their sins—violence, fraud, betrayal—in torments that mirror their earthly transgressions. As allegory, this descent represents the soul's recognition and rejection of sin on its path toward God. The journey begins in a dark wood and leads
through increasingly wicked realms toward Earth's center. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Boeken, H. J., 1861-1933 |
| Title |
Dante's Hel In proza overgebracht en met een inleiding voorzien |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante) |
| Credits |
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | Dutch |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Hell |
| Subject | Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into Dutch |
| Subject | Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into Dutch |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 30229 |
| Release Date | Oct 10, 2009 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 461 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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