Reading Dante: From Here to EternityThis is far more than an exegesis of Dante's three part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante's poetry the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion. The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth