The Divine Comedy: Inferno
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Lost in a dark wood in the middle of his life, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down through the circles of Hell.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 8–12
- First published
- c. 1314
- This edition
- The thirty-four cantos of the Inferno, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation.
- Pages
- 170
- Prompts
- 34, one at the close of each canto
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every canto of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
At the foot of the mountain, the poet says, his soul turned back to “re-behold the pass,” like a man out of the sea who “gazes” at “the water perilous.” Why look again at what nearly drowned him? Underline what the swimmer does and what the soul does, then read how the poet describes that pass.
At the close of Canto I, The Divine Comedy: Inferno.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
Every title uses our standard page layout and is made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages170
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, 120 gsm
- EndpapersPrinted, with different art at front and back
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond, with a ruled column in the outer margin and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts34, one at the close of each canto
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio