Божественная комедия

In world literature, there are books that are destined for a happy, truly divine fate. They become monuments during their lifetime, classics even as they are being written. Dante's great work certainly occupies the most honorable place on this Olympus.
Created... in the early 14th century, "The Divine Comedy" is not only a unique literary work of its time - it is a political, moral, and philosophical encyclopedia.
A huge contribution to the incredibly happy fate of the book was made by the works of the greatest artists, who considered it an honor to illustrate it, and unique translators, who helped to make it a treasure of humanity.
You hold in your hands not just a impeccably published book. The Italian poetic masterpiece in the canonical exquisite and light translation of the brilliant Mikhail Lozinsky has long been quoted in Russia. And the illustrations to it by William Blake, the genius and controversial English master of the early 19th century, published for the first time in our country, provide a new vision of the spiritual and moral aspects of the work.
The comments of leading domestic art historians add additional scientific and cultural value to the book.