Greatest Books from Italy

A Room with a View The Divine Comedy The Vision of hell. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 are among the Greatest Books from Italy included in this set.In the Edwardian era of English culture a young woman is the subject of the novel A Room with a View. The story which takes place in both Italy and England is a romantic comedy that also makes fun of early 20th-century English society. A room with a view of the river Arno was promised to Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin when they traveled to Florence Italy but they were instead given a room that looked out onto a drab courtyard. The two women are given a room by Mr. Emerson and his son George that has a lovely outlook.Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1 Inferno is an acclaimed translation from Italian with an introduction by Mark Musa. It maintains all the style force and significance of the original. The straightforward organic flow of Dante's Inferno is preserved in this forceful translation which also successfully reflects the quick-paced original Italian verse. The voyage through the circles of hell as described by Mark Musa in blank verse recreates for the present reader the deep connotations that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. The text is magnificently illuminated by Musa's introduction and remarks on each of the cantos.The vision of hell. - This book which was first published before 1923 is a copy of a significant historical work that follows the same formatting guidelines as the original. Although some publishers have chosen to use OCR (optical character recognition) technology we believe this produces less-than-ideal results (regular typographical errors odd characters and muddled formatting) and inadequately preserves the historical integrity of the original document. We think that this work in its original archival form has cultural significance.