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Dante: Divine Comedy (English) app for iPhone and iPad


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Education Book
Developer: Dathlon
1.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 10 Mar 2010
App size: 27.79 Mb

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri in the classical English translation by H. W. Longfellow, complete with his commentary, 130+ fine illustrations by Gustave Doré,
and many other features to enrich the reading experience.

Dante: Divine Comedy (English), is the first annoteBook in English, a series whose e-books can be annotated by the reader in a simple and intuitive way. Plus, in this version the full commmentary of the translator with over 2100 notes is included to guide the less experienced readers to the understanding of this immortal masterpiece. To add further value to this book, a full list of characters and places in available, as well as a very useful and detailed description of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

This e-book is packed with a lot of unique features:

• Index of cantos
• Automatic bookmark: by reopening the application you will be automatically repositioned where you left the reading
• Easy reading with a choice of font sizes (landscape reading is possible)
• Choice of background color
• A powerful search engine for words
• Index of characters and places
• Conceptual map of the Dante’s world
• Numbering of verses
• Easy annotations of verse
• Preloaded with 2000+ annotations by H.W. Longfellow
• 130+ illustrations by Gustave Doré
• "Quote of the Day": a random verse from the poem

An internet connection is not required.