The Divine Comedy
The sacred poem of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): the poet's journey, guided by Virgil and Beatrice, through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, in one hundred cantos and some fourteen thousand lines of interlocking tercets. The Italian is the vulgate text in Giorgio Petrocchi's critical constitution (1966-67), as transcribed by Project Gutenberg; the English is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's blank-verse translation (1867), which follows the Italian canto for canto and line for line. One verse to a line, tercets set apart.
Contents
Source: All 100 cantos (Inferno 34, Purgatorio 33, Paradiso 33; 14,233 lines). The Gutenberg header, transcription legend and footer are dropped; each verse is one line (markdown hard break) and tercets are separated by a blank line. No commentary or notes. Line counts per cantica (4,720 / 4,755 / 4,758 verses plus the canto heading) match the poem. · All 100 cantos in blank verse, line for line with the Italian (Longfellow's own notes, argument summaries, sonnets and introductory matter are not imported). Longfellow's translation of Arnaut Daniel's Provençal at Purgatorio XXVI is kept as a footnote.