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Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. This 700th Anniversary Edition of The Divine Comedy is presented in a verse translation by acclaimed...
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Pacem in Terris
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c2005
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English
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"Whereas usually the pictures in a book are intended to illustrate its text, here they are my attempt to express existential insights in symbolic form. I see my sculptures as icons, as three-dimensional ideograms about Ultimate Reality, somehow functioning like Chinese characters or Egyptian hieroglyphs"--Author's reflections.