Excerpt from Tophet and Eden: Hell and Paradise; In Imitation of Dante's Inferno and Paradiso; From the Hebrew of Immanuel Ben Ben Solomon Romi, Dante's Contemporary The accompanying effort is no more than what it professes to be, namely, a tiny leaf added to the ever green laurel-wreath which is placed upon the Altar of Time to the memory of Italy's greatest poet - author of the Divina Commedia, the sexcentenary of whose death occurs in the September of this year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.