Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy, Divine Spirituality

by Robert Royal

In this popular presentation, Royal guides us through The Divine Comedy , a literary classic that is enjoying a renaissance as a spiritual masterpiece. In the course of exploring the human pilgrimage on Earth, Dante charts a vivid path through the canticles of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven in his legendary poem. Robert Royal presents a careful but reader-friendly approach to the poetry of the texts themselves and a biographical sketch of Dante, the man, the writer, and the spiritual lover extraordinaire.

Genres: History

246 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Christopher Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Academically fine, but I was hoping for a more visceral approach. I found it in The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to The Divine Comedy, reviewed elsewhere on my page.

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Provides a good introduction to Dante's work, but mostly recapitulates material that I learned in university.