The goal of this book is simple in this era of coronavirus that has ravaged Dante's homeland - to help Dante help Italy. In this new translation, beautifully illustrated with the sculptures of Timothy Schmalz, Daniel Fitzpatrick makes the poem accessible in plain English to the 21st century reader. But to tell you all the good I found, I will speak of the other things I saw." And so begins our spiritual journey through the Inferno, written over seven hundred years ago by Dante Alighieri. Ah! How very hard it is to tell the way of that wood, so savage and harsh and strong that to dwell in it renews the fear! Death itself can barely be more bitter. "In the midst of the journey of our life I returned to myself through a shadowy wood, for the right way was barred.
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