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Type: Book
ISBN: Unknown
Page count: 449
Language: English
Published: 1922
Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World book Company
Author: Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, Melville Best Anderson
Translator: Melville Best Anderson
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original is a 1922 translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, published by Melville Best Anderson. This work was originally written by Alighieri in circa 1320 CE and includes three separate sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. This version has been praised by scholars as being one of the first complete works translated in the English language.

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  • The translation in terza rima by Melville Best Anderson, American philologist and professor of English literature at Stanford University, was the very first test of a complete translation into English, and in triple rime, of the whole Divine Comedy.

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Halfway through his life (age thirty-five), Dantes goes to the underworld to see hell before visting purgatory and then heaven.

Type: Afterlife
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Belief system: Christian
Main deity: God
Other deities: Achilles, Aeneas, Apollo, Athena, Cronus, Heracles, Jesus Christ, Zeus
Origin: Europe › Southern Europe › Italy
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Inferno by Dante: English Translation

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Melville Best Anderson

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Melville Best Anderson was a scholar and Unitarian known for his translates of the Divine Comedy.
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Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet credited with writing the Divine Comedy.
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Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original. Translated by Melville B. Anderson. Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company, 1922.

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