Dante Alighieri, [Divina commedia]. Dante's Inferno; ... Purgatorio; ... Paradiso. 3 vols. Illustrated by Sandow Birk; translated by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders. Brisbane, Calif.: Trillium Press, 2003-2005.
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Edition limited to 100 copies; original lithographs.
This version of Dante's epic work follows on a long tradition of vernacular writing, free translation and gripping illustration. Birk's contemporary reconstruction builds on Gustave Doré's seminal nineteenth-century visual interpretation of the Divine Comedy and repositions Dante's journey through the afterlife into the modern-day street cultures of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. The image shown here is from Inferno (2003).
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