Inferno — Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. So begins the Inferno, written by Dante Alighieri in the early fourteenth century: a poem that follows a man down through the nine circles of Hell, with Virgil as his guide. This is the whole of it, all 34 cantos, with the Italian Dante wrote beside a translation in your language, and every tercet read aloud. • The complete poem in Italian, from the 1921 edition of Dante's works • Longfellow's English verse translation (1867), Xavier Pinheiro's Portuguese verse (1888), Streckfuß's German verse (1876) and Lamennais's French prose (1863), each complete • The whole poem read aloud in every one of the five languages, over 21 hours in all, the page following the voice tercet by tercet • The Italian alone, the translation alone, or both side by side • Eighteen passages as…