Inferno
| AUTHOR | Mandelbaum, Allen; Alighieri, Dante; Mandelbaum, Allen et al. |
| PUBLISHER | Bantam Classics (01/01/1982) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Mass Market Paperbound) |
Description
A superb translation of Dante's classic tale that chronicles the poet's journey through the nine circles of Hell, a dual-language edition vividly rendered and with an introduction and commentary by National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum "Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University In the Inferno, renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum brings to life the first and most famous part of Dante's Divine Comedy. 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 the underworld. Filled with politics and philosophy, humor and horror, Dante's Inferno is an epic poem at once personal and universal that provides a darkly illuminating view into our present world no less than his own. For as we're led to the last circle of the Inferno, we recognize the very worst in human nature . . . and the ever-abiding potential for redemption. Stunningly translated, all of Dante's evocative images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are presented with marvelous precision. This definitive dual-language edition is unsurpassed for its clarity, beauty, and faithfulness to the original.
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9780553213393
ISBN-10:
0553213393
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Mass Market (Rack) Paperback)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
432
Carton Quantity:
48
Product Dimensions:
4.10 x 1.00 x 6.80 inches
Weight:
0.45 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product,
Table of Contents,
Ikids,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Poetry | European - Italian
Poetry | Classics
Poetry | Epic
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level:
0
Point Value:
0
Guided Reading Level:
Not Applicable
Dewey Decimal:
851.1
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This timeless Christian allegory has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery fo its own identity. In the Inferno, the first of the Comedy's three parts, Dante is conducted by the spirit of the classical poet Virgil through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his arduous journey toward God.
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In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.
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A superb translation of Dante's classic tale that chronicles the poet's journey through the nine circles of Hell, a dual-language edition vividly rendered and with an introduction and commentary by National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum "Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University In the Inferno, renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum brings to life the first and most famous part of Dante's Divine Comedy. 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 the underworld. Filled with politics and philosophy, humor and horror, Dante's Inferno is an epic poem at once personal and universal that provides a darkly illuminating view into our present world no less than his own. For as we're led to the last circle of the Inferno, we recognize the very worst in human nature . . . and the ever-abiding potential for redemption. Stunningly translated, all of Dante's evocative images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are presented with marvelous precision. This definitive dual-language edition is unsurpassed for its clarity, beauty, and faithfulness to the original.
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Translator:
Mandelbaum, Allen
Allen Mandelbaum is W.R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University and a National Book Award winner. He is the translator of the UC Press facing-text editions of Dante s "Divine Comedy" (in three volumes: "Inferno, Purgatorio, "and "Paradiso"), as well as the UC Press editions of the verse translations of "The Odyssey of Homer" and "The Aeneid" of Virgil. Anthony Oldcorn is Chair of Italian at Brown University. Charles Ross is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University.
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