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Inferno
by Alighieri, Dante; Translated by J.G. Nichols
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- ISBN 10
- 1847493408
- ISBN 13
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About This Item
Alma Classics, United Kingdom, 2015. Reprint. Trade Paperback. As New. Illustrator: Gustave Dore. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 402 pages. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Inferno, the first part of Dante's Comedy, is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together with the original text facing, extensive notes, illustrations and a critical apparatus focusing on the author's life and works. Illustrator: Gustave Dore. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Italy; Literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781847493408. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7145. . 9781847493408
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
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7145
- Title
- Inferno
- Author
- Alighieri, Dante; Translated by J.G. Nichols
- Illustrator
- Gustave Dore
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1847493408
- ISBN 13
- 9781847493408
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- BZDB137 poetry, dante's inferno, hell, italian Poetry; Italy; Literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama. Gustave Dore EAN: 9781847493408 Alighieri, Dante; Translated by J.G. Nichols Inferno
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