All three volumes of Dantes The Divine Comedy are now available in striking new packages, translated by John Ciardi and each one featuring a new Afterword by Edward M. Cifelli. Revised reissue., nBelonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieris poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell. nThe first part of Dantes Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan. One of the few literary works that has enjoyed a fame both immediate and enduring, The Inferno remains powerful after seven centuries. It confronts the most universal values--good and evil, free will and predestination--while remaining intensely personal and ferociously political, for it was born out of the anguish of a man who saw human life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his times. n nTranslated by John Ciardi nWith an Introduction by Archibald T. MacAllister nand an Afterword by Edward M. Cifellin