The Prophecy of Dante

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Byron wrote this tribute to the great 14th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri after visiting his tomb in Ravenna in 1819. It envisages Dante prophesying the future of Italy just before his death.

The poem is written in Terza Rima, the complex 3-line rhyme scheme used by Dante in his Divina Commedia

(Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Genre(s): Elegies & Odes

Language: English

Keyword(s): English (113), byron (20), dante (17)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Dedication & Preface Alan Mapstone
00:05:38
Play 01 Canto 1 czandra
00:10:03
Play 02 Canto 2 Arden
00:07:07
Play 03 Canto 3 czandra
00:11:03
Play 04 Canto 4 April6090
00:09:09