Limited edition of Dante's masterpiece

The Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta is launching a limited edition of the Divina Commedia, translated into English by Robert and Jean Hollander.

The edition has over 100 illustrations by Monika Beisner. The institute is exhibiting the illustrations until May 8. The three volumes - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - are bound in full cloth with a dust jacket and are in a cloth-covered slipcase. The work has been set in Centaur and printed in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. The launch will be held at the institute in Valletta on Friday at 6.30 p.m.

A panel discussion will be coordinated by Gloria Lauri Lucente, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta.

The public is invited to attend.