The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno

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A Translator who has never felt his self-imposed task to be a light one may be excused from entering into explanations that would but too naturally take the form of apologies. I will only say that while I have striven to be as faithful as I could to the words as well as to the sense of my author, the following translation is not offered as being always closely literal. The kind of verse employed I believe to be that …

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• AuthorDante Alighieri
• SourceProject Gutenberg #41537
• Length112,798 words
• Chapters70
• DictionaryNot yet generated
• CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
• Source checked2026-08-21

Contents

70 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

1. 01A TRANSLATION
2. 02CANTO I.
3. 03CANTO II.
4. 04CANTO III.
5. 05CANTO IV.
6. 06CANTO V.
7. 07CANTO VI.
8. 08CANTO VII.
9. 09CANTO VIII.
10. 10CANTO IX.
11. 11CANTO X.
12. 12CANTO XI.
13. 13CANTO XII.
14. 14CANTO XIII.
15. 15CANTO XIV.
16. 16CANTO XV.
17. 17CANTO XVI.
18. 18CANTO XVII.
19. 19CANTO XVIII.
20. 20CANTO XIX.
21. 21CANTO XX.
22. 22CANTO XXI.
23. 23CANTO XXII.
24. 24CANTO XXIII.
25. 25CANTO XXIV.
26. 26CANTO XXV.
27. 27CANTO XXVI.
28. 28CANTO XXVII.
29. 29CANTO XXVIII.
30. 30CANTO XXIX.
31. 31CANTO XXX.
32. 32CANTO XXXI.
33. 33CANTO XXXII.
34. 34CANTO XXXIII.
35. 35CANTO XXXIV.
36. 36GIOTTO'S PORTRAIT OF DANTE.[142]
37. 37CANTO I.
38. 38CANTO II.
39. 39CANTO III.
40. 40CANTO IV.
41. 41CANTO V.
42. 42CANTO VI.
43. 43CANTO VII.
44. 44CANTO VIII.
45. 45CANTO IX.
46. 46CANTO X.
47. 47CANTO XI.
48. 48CANTO XII.
49. 49CANTO XIII.
50. 50CANTO XIV.
51. 51CANTO XV.
52. 52CANTO XVI.
53. 53CANTO XVII.
54. 54CANTO XVIII.
55. 55CANTO XIX.
56. 56CANTO XX.
57. 57CANTO XXI.
58. 58CANTO XXII.
59. 59CANTO XXIII.
60. 60CANTO XXIV.
61. 61CANTO XXV.
62. 62CANTO XXVI.
63. 63CANTO XXVII.
64. 64CANTO XXVIII.
65. 65CANTO XXIX.
66. 66CANTO XXX.
67. 67CANTO XXXI.
68. 68CANTO XXXII.
69. 69CANTO XXXIII.
70. 70CANTO XXXIV.

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