This renowned translation of Dante's epic poem, first published in 1822, renders the original Italian text into elegant Latin hexameters. The translation is the work of the Swiss scholar Luigi Angelo Maria da Piazza and is accompanied by a preface and extensive notes by the German philologist Karl Witte.

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