THE DIVINE COMEDY
- Category: Ages 5-7
- Author/Editor: Giorgio Bacchin , Roberto Mussapi
- Format: Children's book/Hardback
- Dimension: 24 cms x 32 cms
- Pages: 40
- Price: 16 €
- Year: 2021
- Rights Sold: Portuguese
Review
Dante Alighieri's journey is presented to young readers with great clarity and simplicity. The basic idea is to return in a few pages, but without neglecting the important details, the greatness of a work that young readers will certainly appreciate during their schooling. And not only. From the terrible descent into the Underworld, to the tiring ascent to Purgatory up to the beauty of Paradise. A long path marked by memorable encounters. Charon, demonic ferryman who carries the souls of the damned; Ulysses surrounded by flames who tells his story with a faint voice; the poet Guido Cavalcanti who burns and consumes himself for the woman he loves. And finally Beatrice, enveloped in the immense light of Paradise, the woman Dante loved so much, who died very young. In the background a gloomy Florence, where clashes and riots follow one another, a city from which Dante was removed for his political activity. «In the middle of my life I got lost in a dark forest. I could no longer find the right way. Dark and terrible, a panther, a lion and lastly a wolf came to meet me ...». Dante's journey has just begun!