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Inferno Paperback - 2003
by Dante Alighieri; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator); Matthew Pearl (Editor)
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"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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In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante's literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vivid detail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment.
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- Title Inferno
- Author Dante Alighieri; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator); Matthew Pearl (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition LATER PRINTING
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Modern Library, New York
- Date February 4, 2003
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780812967210 / 0812967216
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.26 x 0.91 in (20.37 x 13.36 x 2.31 cm)
- Reading level 1270
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Hell
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002026565
- Dewey Decimal Code 851.1
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