Purgatorio
| AUTHOR | Mandelbaum, Allen; Alighieri, Dante; Mandelbaum, Allen et al. |
| PUBLISHER | Bantam Classics (12/01/1983) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Mass Market Paperbound) |
Description
This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
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ISBN-13:
9780553213447
ISBN-10:
055321344X
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Mass Market (Rack) Paperback)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
448
Carton Quantity:
48
Product Dimensions:
4.20 x 1.00 x 6.90 inches
Weight:
0.45 pound(s)
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Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Poetry | European - Italian
Poetry | Classics
Poetry | Epic
Dewey Decimal:
851.1
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jacket back
This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
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This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
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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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