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Bruce Cole Collection: Collection

A finding aid covering the Bruce Cole Collection located in the Summerville Reading Room on the 2nd floor of the Trible Library.

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This LibGuide features the Bruce Cole Collection, donated by the late art historian, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, professor, trustee, writer, and public servant Bruce Cole. His collection is located in Summerville Reading Room of the 2nd floor of the Paul and Rosemary Trible Library.

Bruce Cole (1938 - 2018)

Ethics and Public Policy Center. (Biographer). (2013). Bruce Cole [Digital image]. Retrieved from https://eppc.org/author/bruce_cole/.

Christopher Newport University. (2018). Bruce Cole: Defining a Life of Significance. [Collection display, Summerville Reading Room].

The divine comedy : the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso / Dante Alighieri ; a new translation into English blank verse by Lawrence Grant White, with illustrations by Gustave Doré.

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Dust jacket notes:  "For the first time, one the greatest narrative poems of world literature, Dante's imaginary journey through the realm of the dead, is made accessible to the English reader in a direct, simple and accurate version.  The swift pace of the narrative is nowhere impeded by archaisms and torturous constructions, and the meaning of the poem becomes clean to he modern reader.

"No other poem in any language has had so wide and so sustained an appeal.  Its importance is universal, and has steadily increased in the last six hundred years.  The poem's grandiose subject is a vision of the life of the souls in the three realms of the hereafter:  Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.  The treatment is an architectonic construction of utmost artistry.  Its one hundred cantos are subdivided into one introductory canto and thirty-three cantos for each of the three main parts.  Nine is the number of the circles of Hell, nine are the stages comprising the ascent of the mountain of Purgatory, and nine are the circling spheres of heaven which culminate in the immovable seat of the Godhead.

"Of the many illustrations which Dante's vividly described scenes have inspired, the most dramatic and literal portrayals are by Gustave Dore."

Call Number: PQ4315 .W5 1948

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