The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
Mandelbaum, Allen (TRN)
Mandelbaum, Allen
Hardcover
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BOOK SUMMARY
The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unl
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
Allen Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.
This Everyman’s edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.
BOOK REVIEWS
The English Dante of choice. Hugh Kenner
Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths. Robert Fagles, Princeton University
A marvel of fidelity to the original, of sobriety, and truly, of inspired poetry. Henri Peyre, Yale University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679433139
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679433132
Copyright: 1995
Dewey Decimal: 851/.1
Library of Congress: BL 98005712
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 798
Paper Weight (lb): 1.85
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