Inferno: From "The Divine Comedy" Audio CD – Classical, 28 Feb. 2005

Overall the product is nice. Well constructed. Illustrations are awesome.Unfortunately after being on my backlog of reading for a while I finally got round to it. Only to find out half way through the book the bottom corner of several pages where glued together. Separating them as I turned the page led to pages ripping.

good quality, however arrived with something like sticky on the cover? no harm tho got a wipe and it came completely off, just a bit odd. also smaller than expected but i like it!

Dante was first exiled from Florence, and then condemned to death in his absence.He wrote this poem about the political corruption of his times. He particularly hated those who were lending money at interest, and those who were using the Church as a political power.The evil sorts of lower kind of men were gaining the upper hand in his time. Those who were waging wars for purposes of the unreal, those who were using religious and important public bodies for personal gain.We see this everywhere today. He was also against the commercial expansion of his city, seeing large scale 'multinational' sorts of activity as bad for human life in its proper visionary state.Ezra Pound took Dante's politics and economics seriously. TS Eliot speculated that Dante really had seen what this book says that he saw: God, angels, devils, underground worlds, beings, bipods which were not human.When books become proscribed, removed from shelves and bookcases in homes becuase of political purges in the future, Dante's will be one of the first to go. Forever, Dante will be the example of the human genius for freedom, revolt, dissidence, visionary abilities, and love.His book is a book of divine love, written in extended large scale sonnets. These love poems are not aimed at a single solitary woman as the earlier Vita Nova ones were, but at the whole circle of existence as humans can perceive it. God is the source of love, and is inside those who are not corrupted by power, money, lies, violence, hate.This is why it is the greatest book of the post classical era.

I've read a couple of Dantes and to my ear Kirkpatrick's version is the best yet. It gives a "feel" for medieaval Europe somehow; obviously (and rightly) the rhymes aren't maintained - Kirkpatrick considers accuracy of meaning more important - but the metre and rhythms work well; the imagery is brought to life by very careful word choice.However - this is the Kindle edition, ASIN B002RI9HHU  Inferno: The Divine Comedy I  - and there's a problem. The print edition includes the original Italian text on facing pages. While great for study, the differing lengths of English text versus Italian mean no amount of formatting reliably delivers a Kindle pageful of Italian followed by a pageful of English; everything is in one long column making the book virtually unreadable. The edition includes Real Page Numbers, which in future versions of Kindle software may allow page-by-page flickthroughs or side-by-side layouts as the formatters intended, but the technology isn't there yet, making this a much less enjoyable read than it should.I'm a Kindle nut, but if you want this excellent work, buy it in paperback.

Always wanted to read the original but itis impossible to get through. This is readable but still hard compared to modern books.

The original is easier to understand the basics of what is happening.

There are a lot of similarities in the inferno and religious beliefs of others with respect to sinners and those destined for hell. A good account.

reading this book was like wading through treacle. It is real hard going but worth the effort. I'm gonna read it again to see if it makes more sense, as I think this is a read more than once book !! there are written notes that try and decipher the meaning of the text ,otherwise I would have been totally lost. Apparently there are study groups and "leading authorities" who have spent years studying Dante s Inferno so if you dont get it first time round dont despair !!!!