Books by Dante Alighieri (4)
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The Divine Comedy : The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso by Dante Alighieri EN
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For the first time, John Ciardi's translations of Dante's three soaring canticles have been gathered together in a single volume.
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The Divine Comedy : Volume 1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri EN
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An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell recreates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text. For more than seventy yea... continue
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The Inferno by Dante Alighieri EN
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Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.