The Un-Divine Comedy

Zygmunt Krasiński's un-Divine Comedy written by a young, barely twenty-one-year-old poet stirred up readers' emotions from its first publication (in February 1835). Adam Mickiewicz himself considered it the most excellent national poem and dedicated his lectures at the College de France. She was admired by both Juliusz Słowacki and Cyprian Kamil Norwid (who placed Krasiński in the same row as Dante and Shakespeare).

Krasiński himself wrote: "In the summer I started writing a drama about contemporary affairs of this world, about the principle of aristocracy and the people. The hero is a count and at the same time a poet; I contrasted him with a people's leader, a man of genius who emerged from darkness and marches at the head of a million-strong crowd of shoemakers and peasants. I introduced scenes full of exaltation on the ruins of collapsed cathedrals [...]. Then, amidst all this, I showed a leader who understands his work and proselytes carried away by zeal who understand nothing. And then I outlined the figure of a count-poet who has to defend his brothers in their last refuge, in a Gothic castle". In another place Krasiński noted: "I have a drama concerning the affairs of our age, a struggle in it between two principles: aristocracy and democracy [...]. The piece, I think, is well written. It is a defense of what many lowlifes are fighting for, religion and the glory of the past".

Text of this edition The Un-Divine Comedy we based it on the third edition (Paris 1858), the last during the poet's lifetime. Therefore, only changes in relation to the first two editions from 1835 and 1837 have been noted.

The book was printed on Century Laid cotton paper in an edition of 25 copies and set with a font cut by Michel Viberta for Pierre Didot .

The typeface was first used in the book Petit Careme Jean-Baptiste Massillon published in Paris in 1812.

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Edition of 25 copies.

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