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THE DIVINE COMEDY (Three Volume set)
by DANTE; Translated By Thomas G. Bergin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Item Price
£259.04£220.18
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About This Item
NY: Grossman Publishers., 1969. (USA) First Printing No markings, tight square copies, Fine in Good only original slipcase which is split along the top edge. . Three volumes about 34 x 22.5 cm, dark grey boards with off-white linen spine with gold title. Volume I: 281pp. Volume II: 292pp. Volume III: 295pp. Full page B&W illus by Leonard Baskin. The text was printed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona Italy. The paper Antiqua was made for this edition. The drawings were reproduced by Meriden Gravure Company under the supervision of Harold Hugo. Martino Marderstag was the designer. These were the first trade printings after the limited edition. A heavy set. (19.0 JM HOQ 103/a0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by BASKIN, Leonard. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
Synopsis
"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington TimesIn this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture."If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-TribuneFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- JWMah
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36990
- Title
- THE DIVINE COMEDY (Three Volume set)
- Author
- DANTE; Translated By Thomas G. Bergin
- Illustrator
- BASKIN, Leonard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Grossman Publishers.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books Leonard Baskin Italian Poetry Literature NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
JWMah
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