title: The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy)
author: Dante Alighieri
description: "A modern reader, uninformed, could peruse the whole Commedia, satisfied with the mere literal story and entranced by its unparalleled beauty of language and imagery, but he would miss the inspiration of that higher message which so clearly merits the name of divine." --C. H. Grandgent
zlib_text: THE DIVINE COMEDY
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  THE DIVINE COMEDY
  DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)
  TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH
  LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
  
  THE DIVINE COMEDY
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  CREDITS
   The base text for this edition has been provided by Digital Dante, a
  project sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Learning
  Technologies. Specific thanks goes to Jennifer Hogan (Project
  Editor/Director), Tanya Larkin (Assistant to Editor), Robert W. Cole
  (Proofreader/Assistant Editor), and Jennifer Cook (Proofreader).
  The Digital Dante Project is a digital 'study space' for Dante studies
  and scholarship. The project is multi-faceted and fluid by nature of the
  Web. Digital Dante attempts to organize the information most significant
  for students first engaging with Dante and scholars researching Dante. The
  digital of Digital Dante incurs a new challenge to the student, the scholar,
  and teacher, perusing the Web: to become proficient in the new tools, e.g.,
  Search, the Discussion Group, well enough to look beyond the technology
  and