The Divine Comedy

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third." - T. S. Eliot

"Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature." - Ian Thompson.

"I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast." - James Joyce.

In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood/Bewildered, and I knew I had lost the way: so opens Dante's Divine Comedy, "the best book literature has achieved" as Jorge Luis Borges writes...