Gustave Dore Remastered The Divine Comedy

Hello, please be aware these illustrations are from scans and not the engravings, thank you. To accompany the epic poem The Divine Comedy are 136 classic, Gustave Dore illustrations. These Gustave Dore illustrations paint the worlds of the inferno, purgatory, and heaven. This title is 6 x 9 inches.

Thank you for your interest. Studio 57 has remastered 136 Divine Comedy illustrations. The size of this title is 8.5 x 11 inches, which make it easier for viewing the illustrations. This title includes 75 Inferno illustrations, 60 illustrations from Purgatory and Paradise, and one illustration of the author of The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. We have upgraded the prints and made adjustments from our previous version of this title to remove the softness of the prints so that these prints reflect the original works better.

Thank you for your interest. Inside rests the epic poem of Dante Alighieri, the Divine Comedy. To accompany the poem are 136 classic, full-page Gustave Dore illustrations. These Gustave Dore classics bring intense illustrations of the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. The book size is 8.5 x 11 inches, which makes it perfect for viewing the illustrations and easily reading the text of the epic poem.

Thank you for your interest. Studio 57 has remastered 135 (complete) Divine Comedy illustrations inside an 8.5 x 11-inch format paperback book. This title includes 75 Inferno illustrations and 60 illustrations from Purgatory and Paradise, the complete works for The Divine Comedy. We have upgraded the prints and made adjustments from our previous version of this title to remove the softness of the prints, so that these prints reflect the originals better.

Reproductions of Dore's scenes from the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso are accompanied by lines from Longfellow's translation

Hello, please be aware these illustrations are scans and not engravings, Dover's are better. This is just a cheaper alternative for those interested. This title includes 75 Inferno illustrations, 60 illustrations from Purgatory and Paradise, and one illustration of the author of The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. Thank you.

The hundred and thirty-six plates of this book in large format have been originally done for the French and American editions of the Divine Comedy, between the years 1857 and 1868. That is to say: the portrait of Dante Alighieri (page 1); 75 plates for the Inferno; 42 for the Purgatorio; and 18 for the Paradiso. In the American version, the English translation of the famous poem of Dante was the first ever done in this tongue, by Rev. Henry Francis Cary. This edition presents these plates in their original order, of course: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Heaven). However, we added three more plates to illustrate the introduction pages of each of these three parts, beautifully drawn by famous Irish artist Phoebe Anna Traquair in 1890. To each of the Doré's plates, we added the numbers of the cantos and of the verses they are supposed to illustrate. Thus, you will easily establish the correct correspondence between each and every picture and any original Italian version or English translation of the Divine Comedy. We also added to them the same corresponding excerpts of their cantos you could find in any original American version of the book (in two vol.: 1. Inferno [1861]; 2. Purgatorio and Paradiso [1868])-inasmuch as the verses of your version of this book are numbered, of course. To those who are already familiar with the plates Gustave Doré drew for the Divine Comedy: we scanned ours from original printings before we carefully restored them and "cleaned" small scratches and various printing imperfections visible on any original copies. We also reviewed their contrasts (real black inking instead of gray) so as to restitute their depths often lost due to insufficient inking during the printing process of the 19th century. That's why and how they seem to be of a higher quality than in any original printing.