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The Inferno of Dante : A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition
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The Inferno of Dante : A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition Hardcover - 1994

by Alighieri, Dante

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  • Title The Inferno of Dante : A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition
  • Author Alighieri, Dante
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Third Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
  • Date December 31, 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6146627-6
  • ISBN 9780374176747 / 0374176744
  • Weight 1.96 lbs (0.89 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.49 x 1.44 in (23.01 x 16.48 x 3.66 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Hell - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93040169
  • Dewey Decimal Code 851.1

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Summary

"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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About the author

A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University and has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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