The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno is 113,642 words — about 7h 35m at 250 words per minute, across 36 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.
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A Translator who has never felt his self-imposed task to be a light one may be excused from entering into explanations that would but too naturally take the form of apologies. I will only say that while I have striven to be as faithful as I could to the words as well as to the sense of my author, the following translation is not offered as being always closely literal. The kind of verse employed I believe to be that …
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- AuthorDante Alighieri
- SourceProject Gutenberg #41537
- Length113,642 words · 7h 35m of reading
- Chapters36
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
36 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01A TRANSLATION
- 02GIOTTO'S PORTRAIT OF DANTE.[142
- 03CANTO I.
- 04CANTO II.
- 05CANTO III.
- 06CANTO IV.
- 07CANTO V.
- 08CANTO VI.
- 09CANTO VII.
- 10CANTO VIII.
- 11CANTO IX.
- 12CANTO X.
- 13CANTO XI.
- 14CANTO XII.
- 15CANTO XIII.
- 16CANTO XIV.
- 17CANTO XV.
- 18CANTO XVI.
- 19CANTO XVII.
- 20CANTO XVIII.
- 21CANTO XIX.
- 22CANTO XX.
- 23CANTO XXI.
- 24CANTO XXII.
- 25CANTO XXIII.
- 26CANTO XXIV.
- 27CANTO XXV.
- 28CANTO XXVI.
- 29CANTO XXVII.
- 30CANTO XXVIII.
- 31CANTO XXIX.
- 32CANTO XXX.
- 33CANTO XXXI.
- 34CANTO XXXII.
- 35CANTO XXXIII.
- 36CANTO XXXIV.
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