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The Divine Comedy (The Modern Library, 208)
by ALIGHIERI, Dante
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Unabridged. The Carlyle-Wicksteed translation. Introduction by C.H. Grandgent of Harvard University. Blumenthal style 8 binding in green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Poet Daniel G. Hoffman's copy with his name and dated penned on the front fly and his pen and pencil underlining and marginalia throughout, very good with front hinge cracked, small stain on topedge in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears along the extremities, spine tanned.
Synopsis
Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. Married to Gemma Donatic, Dante's political activism resulted in his being exiled from Florence to eventually settle in Ravenna. It is believed that The Divine Comedy —comprised of three canticles, The Inferno, The Purgatorio , and The Paradiso —was written between 1308 and 1320. Dante Alighieri died in 1321.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 528959
- Title
- The Divine Comedy (The Modern Library, 208)
- Author
- ALIGHIERI, Dante
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- History, Sociology, PoliticalBooks, Religion
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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