Dante Alighieri / Gustave Doré - La Divina Commedia - 1887

Fascinating illustrated edition of one of the founding monuments of world literature, a vast poetic, philosophical, theological, and political epic that recounts Dante’s initiatory journey through the three realms of the afterlife—the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—in order to lead the human soul from the misguidance of sin to the contemplation of God.

Composed at the dawn of the 14th century in Italian, the work is structured in one hundred cantos spread across three major parts, preceded by an introductory canto, and rests on an extraordinarily complex symbolic architecture in which each episode bears a moral, spiritual, and philosophical significance.

The narrative begins when Dante, lost in a dark forest that symbolizes humankind’s deviation from God, is prevented from reaching the mountain of salvation by three beasts representing the principal forms of sin.

Together, they undertake the descent into the nine circles of Hell, an immense funnel dug beneath Jerusalem where the souls of the damned suffer punishments proportionate to the faults committed during their earthly lives, according to the principle of divine justice.

Dante Alighieri / Gustave Doré - The Divine Comedy - 1887 - Edoardo Sonzogno -
680 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, work in its original red half-skin binding, boards in printed cardboard, wear from use, minor defects on the cover, cracked hinges, worn headbands and corners, speckled edges, smooth titled spine, as well as the first board.

Good interior condition, browning, text in two columns, work enriched with beautiful black engravings out of text, a pleasing copy.

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