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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition
by Dante
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374524521
- ISBN 13
- 9780374524524
- Seller
-
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996-03-30. Paperback. Very Good. Contents are tight and clean
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Lexington Books Inc
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 072455
- Title
- The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition
- Author
- Dante
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374524521
- ISBN 13
- 9780374524524
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996-03-30
- X weight
- 15 oz
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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