Divine Comedy
by Dante (Longfellow)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Bigelow, Smith &Co, 1909 A well kept quarter bound in red leather and red cloth. Volume 1 of 3 in a delux edition.The tail of the spine is slightly rubbed as shelf wear. Interior is bright and tight with red marbled end papers. This translation is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow done in 1867.
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
- Westside Stories
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 902526
- Title
- Divine Comedy
- Author
- Dante (Longfellow)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bigelow, Smith &Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Classic Dante Longfellow
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Westside Stories
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Hamilton, Ontario
About Westside Stories
Used, hard to find, and out of print books. Large fiction and non-fiction sections, Over 25000 books in store.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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