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Reading Divine Comedy

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita —
following Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, one canto a day.

100 cantos · a canto a day · three sepia-illustrated plates per canto

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Inferno

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

  1. I The Dark Wood
  2. II Twilight Hesitation
  3. III The Gate
  4. IV The Pale Poet
  5. V Minos at the Mouth
  6. VI Cerberus in the Rain
  7. VII Plutus Collapses
  8. VIII Phlegyas Skiff
  9. IX The Furies on the Wall
  10. X Farinata Rising
  11. XI The Stench and the Tomb
  12. XII The Minotaur on the Ruin
  13. XIII The Thorn Wood
  14. XIV The Burning Sand
  15. XV The Dike
  16. XVI The Three in a Wheel
  17. XVII Geryon on the Verge
  18. XVIII The Two Ranks
  19. XIX The Baptismal Bolgia
  20. XX The Twisted Procession
  21. XXI The Pitch Cauldron
  22. XXII The March Along the Dike
  23. XXIII The Flight From the Malebranche
  24. XXIV The Climb
  25. XXV The Figs Against God
  26. XXVI The Bolgia of Flames
  27. XXVII The Second Flame
  28. XXVIII The Demon with the Sword
  29. XXIX Geri Del Bello Pointing
  30. XXX The Running Impersonators
  31. XXXI The Towers That Are Giants
  32. XXXII The Frozen Lake
  33. XXXIII Ugolino Begins to Speak
  34. XXXIV The First Sight of Lucifer

Purgatorio

Here let dead poetry rise again.

  1. I The Four Stars
  2. II The Angel Boat
  3. III The Single Shadow
  4. IV The Narrow Scramble
  5. V Jacopo in the Marsh
  6. VI The Couchant Lion
  7. VII Virgil Names Himself
  8. VIII The Evening Bell
  9. IX The Eagle Dream
  10. X The Annunciation Relief
  11. XI The Paternoster
  12. XII The Pavement of Pride
  13. XIII The Bare Terrace
  14. XIV The Two Shades Leaning
  15. XV The Angel of Mercy
  16. XVI The Walking Blind
  17. XVII The Three Visions of Wrath
  18. XVIII Virgil on the Threshold of Assent
  19. XIX The Dream of the Siren
  20. XX Hugh Capet Speaking Into the Stone
  21. XXI Statius Arrives Like Emmaus
  22. XXII Three Poets Walking
  23. XXIII The Famished Crowd
  24. XXIV Bonagiunta and the Question
  25. XXV The Stairway and the Question
  26. XXVI The Two Bands Meet
  27. XXVII The Pilgrim and the Fire
  28. XXVIII The Divine Forest
  29. XXIX The Candlesticks and the Rainbow
  30. XXX The Cloud of Flowers
  31. XXXI The Confession
  32. XXXII The Tree Renewed
  33. XXXIII The Prophecy

Paradiso

The love that moves the sun and other stars.

  1. I Beatrice Gazing at the Sun
  2. II The Little Boats
  3. III The Faint Faces
  4. IV Between Two Viands
  5. V Beatrice on Vows
  6. VI Justinian As Light
  7. VII The Departing Hosanna
  8. VIII Arrival in Venus
  9. IX Cunizza Speaks
  10. X The Trinity and the World
  11. XI The Betrothal of Francis and Poverty
  12. XII The Two Wreaths
  13. XIII The Fifteen Stars
  14. XIV Solomon Speaks
  15. XV The Falling Star
  16. XVI The Roll Call
  17. XVII The Road of Others
  18. XVIII The Letters
  19. XIX The Eagle with One Voice
  20. XX The Eye of the Eagle
  21. XXI The Golden Ladder
  22. XXII Benedict on Monte Cassino
  23. XXIII The Bird on the Nest
  24. XXIV The Baccalaureate
  25. XXV The Font
  26. XXVI The Cure of Sight
  27. XXVII The Reddening Heaven
  28. XXVIII The Mirrored Point
  29. XXIX The Balanced Horizons
  30. XXX The River of Light
  31. XXXI The Swarm of Bees
  32. XXXII The Seating Chart
  33. XXXIII The Prayer of Bernard