Robert Durling's much-anticipated translation of the Paradiso, the third and final volume of Dante's Divine Comedy, is available at last. Durling's prose translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the ent
The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Inferno
- Book ID
- 104493778
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0808509578
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β¦ Synopsis
In this superb translation of theInferno, Allen Mendelbaum brings to life for contemporary readers the first and most famous part of Dante'sDivine Comedy: the poet's classic journey through the underworld. Here is Dante at his ribald, shocking, and demonic best as he describes in unforgettably vivid detail his harrowing descent to the very bottom of Hell. Filled with politics and philosophy, humor and horror, theInfernois an epic poem at once personal and universal that provides a darkly illuminating view into our present world no less than Dante's own. For as we're lead to the last circle of the Inferno we recognize the very worst in human nature...and the ever-abiding potential for redemption. Complete with an introduction and commentary, this definitive dual-language edition is unsurpassed for its clarity, beauty, and faithfulness to the original.
β¦ Subjects
Medieval
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