THE COMEDY

Title page of Penguin edition of
Dante's Inferno, reprinted 1960,
actual size. Note the three
asterisks to which Dorothy Sayers
took objection (see p. 12).

OF

DANTE ALIGHIERI

THE FLORENTINE

CANTICA I

HELL

(L’INFERNO)

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TRANSLATED BY
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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If fin Picture Book 66 ■ Two shillings

Cover of a Puffin Picture book, published by
Penguin in 1950, actual size. The title page
lettering was drawn by Tschichold, harmonising
with the subject and style of the illustrations in
the book.

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