Description
| Product ID: | 9780195087444 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri |
| Subtitle: | Volume 1: Inferno |
| Authors: | Author: Dante Alighieri, Robert Turner |
| Page Count: | 672 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Italian |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell. A newly edited version of the Italian text can be found on facing pages, and this edition includes fully comprehensive notes as well as sixteen essays on special subjects. This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante''s epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling''s translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante''s extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and sardonic humour, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society.A newly edited version of the Italian text can be on facing pages, and this edition includes fully comprehensive notes as well as sixteen essays on special subjects. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1997-06-05 |
