The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1855. 12mo, 587 pages, publisher's original blind-stamped and gilt lettered blue cloth covered boards. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and twelve black-and-white engravings from designs by John Flaxman. The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri is Henry Francis Cary’s celebrated English translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, one of the central works of world literature. This 1855 New York edition, published by D. Appleton & Company, presents Dante’s great poetic journey through the three realms of the afterlife: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Guided first by Virgil and later by Beatrice, Dante encounters sinners, penitents, saints, political figures, classical heroes, and theological visions, creating a vast moral and spiritual allegory of the soul’s progress toward God. Cary’s translation was one of the most influential English renderings of Dante in the 19th century, helping introduce generations of English-speaking readers to the grandeur, symbolism, and religious imagination of the medieval Italian masterpiece. Some rubbing and wear, hinges cracked, previous owner's bookplate and inscription, fraying to hinges, discoloration and foxing throughout, else in good condition. Item #383
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