Título: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Autor: Dante Alighieri
Sinopse: Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.The poem begins on the night before Good Friday in the year 1300, "halfway along our life's path" (Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita). Dante is thirty-five years old, half of the biblical lifespan of 70 (Psalms 89:10, Vulgate), lost in a dark wood (understood as sin), assailed by beasts (a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf) he cannot evade, and unable to find the "straight way" (diritta via) - also translatable as "right way" - to salvation (symbolized by the sun behind the mountain). Conscious that he is ruining himself and that he is falling into a "low place" (basso loco) where the sun is silent ('l sol tace), Dante is at last rescued by Virgil, and the two of them begin their journey to the underworld. Each sin's punishment in Inferno is a contrapasso, a symbolic instance of poetic justice; for example, in Canto XX, fortune-tellers and soothsayers must walk with their heads on backwards, unable to see what is ahead, because that was what they had tried to do in life:they had their faces twisted toward their haunchesand found it necessary to walk backward,because they could not see ahead of them.... and since he wanted so to see ahead,he looks behind and walks a backward path.[16]Allegorically, the Inferno represents the Christian soul seeing sin for what it really is, and the three beasts represent three types of sin: the self-indulgent, the violent, and the malicious.[17] These three types of sin also provide the three main divisions of Dante's Hell: Upper Hell, outside the city of Dis, for the four sins of indulgence (lust, gluttony, avarice, anger); Circle 7 for the sins of violence; and Circles 8 and 9 for the sins of malice (fraud and treachery). Added to these are two unlike categories that are specifically spiritual: Limbo, in Circle 1, contains the virtuous pagans who were not sinful but were ignorant of Christ, and Circle 6 contains the heretics who contradicted the doctrine and confused the spirit of Christ. The circles number 9, with the addition of Satan completing the structure of 9 + 1 = 10
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, de Dante Alighieri, publicado pela editora Createspace Independent Pub, em 2014 e com 288 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Createspace Independent Pub
Páginas: 288
Ano: 2014
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781500356002
ISBN13: 9781500356002
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O catálogo da Createspace Independent Pub oferece uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o fantástico, o suspense e a reflexão histórica, frequentemente com protagonistas jovens ou em situações-limite. Os livros da editora Createspace Independent Pub costumam explorar conflitos intensos, como batalhas internas entre humanidade e monstros, jornadas de sobrevivência em cenários pós-apocalípticos e mistérios que envolvem o sobrenatural ou o passado. Há obras que se aprofundam em dramas pessoais e relacionamentos complexos, além de outras que apresentam enredos mais densos e sombrios, com temas como assassinatos rituais e forças ocultas. O tom varia entre o tenso e o emocional, com ritmo que pode ser tanto acelerado quanto contemplativo, dependendo da história.
