Great Books and Classics

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

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List of Works
[The Divine Comedy] [Inferno] [On Monarchy] [The New Life] [Paradiso] [Purgatorio]

The Divine Comedy (c. 1306-1321) [GBF,GBWW,GI,HTR,HC]
Includes the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.

HTML (15 pages, indexed, plus notes pages) at Dante and Others (Translated by A.S. Kline)
Italian HTML (multi-page, indexed) at Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Italian Multi-Format (PDF, HTML, ePUB, RTF, TXT) at Liber Liber
Italian Audiobook (indexed MP3, OGG) at Liber Liber
German Text File (634 KB; 257 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, Die Göttliche Komödie (Translated by Karl Steckfuß)
Finnish Text file (767 KB; 324 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, Jumalainen Näytelmä (Translated by Eino Leino)
Spanish PDF (link page) at Biblioteca Virtual Universal

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Paperback edition of the Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation (Random House, 1986).
Paperback edition, translated by Charles H. Sisson (?, 1998, 771 pg).
Spanish Paperback edition - La Divina Comedia (Edaf, 2015, 640 pg).

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Inferno (Hell) (c. 1306-1314) [GBF,GBWW,GI,HTR,HC]
Part one of The Divine Comedy.

HTML (5 pages, indexed, plus notes pages) at Dante and Others (Translated by A.S. Kline)
Italian HTML (multi-page, indexed) at Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Finnish Text File (225 KB; 95 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, Jumalainen Näytelmä: Helvetti (Translated by Eino Leino)
French Text File in two volumes at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Antoine de Rivarol):
Tome I (229 KB; 90 KB zipped)
Tome II (212 KB; 84 KB zipped)

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Texts of Dante's complete work, including Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, are listed under The Divine Comedy.
Mass Market Paperback edition, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (Bantam Classic, 1992, 396 pg).

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On Monarchy (c. 1309-1313) [HTR]

Italian HTML (5 pages, indexed) at Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Italian Multi-Format (PDF, RTF, TXT) at Liber Liber

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Paperback edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, 1996).

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The New Life (c. 1292-1294) [HTR]

HTML (4 pages, indexed) at Dante and Others (Translated by A.S. Kline)
Italian HTML (multi-page, indexed) at Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Italian Multi-Format (PDF, RTF, TXT) at Liber Liber
French HTML (411 KB; 112 KB zipped; 253/92KB text file also available) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Max Durand Fardel)
Spanish PDF (direct link) at Diccionario Teológico Mercabá (Translator Unknown)
Spanish PDF (link page) at Biblioteca Virtual Universal

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Library Binding edition (Reprint Services Corp., 159 pg).
Italian/English Paperback edition, translation by Stanley Appelbaum (Dover Publications, 2006, 128 pg).

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Paradiso (c. 1319-1321) [GBWW,GI,HTR,HC]
Part three of The Divine Comedy.

HTML (5 pages, indexed, plus notes pages) at Dante and Others (Translated by A.S. Kline)
Italian HTML (multi-page, indexed) at Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Finnish Text File (320 KB; 134 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, Jumalainen Näytelmä: Paratiisi (Translated by Eino Leino)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Texts of Dante's complete work, including Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, are listed under The Divine Comedy.
Mass Market Paperback edition, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (Bantam Classic, 1986).

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Purgatorio (c. 1315-1318) [GBWW,GI,HTR,HC]
Part two of The Divine Comedy.

HTML (5 pages, indexed, plus notes pages) at Dante and Others (Translated by A.S. Kline)
Italian HTML (multi-page, indexed) at Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Finnish Text File (263 KB; 111 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, Jumalainen Näytelmä: Kiirastuli (Translated by Eino Leino)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Texts of Dante's complete work, including Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, are listed under The Divine Comedy.
Mass Market Paperback edition, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (Bantam Classic, 1984, 448 pg).