1890 Rare Victorian Book - THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI by Longfellow

 

Author : DANTE ALIGHIERI (Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
Title :THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI.
Publisher : London, George Routledge and Sons, no date (circa 1890).
Language : Text in English
Size : 7 " X 5.5 "
Pages : viii-760 pages
Binding : Very good and attractive full Victorian decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, foxing mainly on first and last pages - as shown)

The book : Nice and attractive edition of the Divine Comedy.

The author: Durante degli Alighieri simply called Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. It has been referred to as the greatest poem of the Middle Ages.