Images of the journey in Dante's Divine comedy

by Charles H. Taylor

The vivid events and characters of Dante's Divine Comedy - one of the most powerful expressions of sacred imagination in all literature - have inspired artists for over six centuries. This magnificently illustrated book assembles more than 250 illustrations of Dante's poem, created by fifteen known artists and some twenty anonymous illuminators to depict every aspect of the pilgrim's journey to the depths of Hell, the mountain of Purgatory, and the heavenly spheres of Paradise.