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Article: Dante's divine comedy in America.(The Dante Club)(Inferno)(Dante's Gallery of Rogues)(Book Review)
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- Modern Age
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- June 22, 2005
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The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl, New York: Random House, 2003. 400 pp.
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri; edited by Matthew Pearl; translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, New York: Modern Library, 2003. 432 pp.
Dante's Gallery of Rogues: 36 Color Reproductions of Original Paintings Illustrating Dante's Inferno, by Vincenzo R. Latella; edited by Anne Paolucci, Middle Village, N.Y.: Council on National Literatures, 2001. 119 pp.
ALTHOUGH DANTE HIMSELF never used the term "divine comedy," it may be the most far-reaching to have worked its way into popular culture. Dante's first biographer, Giovanni Boccaccio, coined the words to explain how Dante's ...