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The Divine Comedy
by Dante (author); Lawrence Grant White (translator)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
First THUS (1948; Pantheon). In Good condition with Fair dust jacket. DJ shows surface, edge and corner wear, including small tears and chips. Nothing overly bad for a book this old. Cloth boards are in good condition, but with some creases and bumps around the edges. Tight binding. Interior pages are clean and unmarked; lightly tanned.
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
- BooksGalore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BN19-TDC
- Title
- The Divine Comedy
- Author
- Dante (author); Lawrence Grant White (translator)
- Illustrator
- Gustave Doré
- Format/Binding
- Sewn binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 188
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Italian History and Literature;
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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