The Divine Comedy
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1522633421 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 423 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He is the author of the three canticles, The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso. Politically active in Florence, he was banished to Italy in 1302. Considered Italy’s greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered the art of lyric poetry at an early age. He died in 1321. Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. In 1274, he met the great love of his life, Beatrice, whom he immortalized in La Vita Nuova (1292) and The Divine Comedy
Eliot“Ciardi has given usa credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary gauds of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance.”—Dudley Fitts “A sensitive and perceptive translation…a spectacular achievement.”—Archibald MacLeish“I think Ciardi’s version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen.”—John Crowe Ransom. “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them—there is no third.”—T.S
THE BEST E-BOOK VERSION SO FAR OF A VENERABLE MONSTER (AND QUITE THE TIMELESS MASTERPIECE) Wilbourg The recent translations of this Western tower are sublime. Whether you're more inclined to enjoy the splendid Hollanders and their smooth renderings or the fabulous Durling translation with its more spiky word for word (as best as possible) attempt, or the justifiably popular Esolen, Musa or Mandelbaum college-push translations, you are in good hands. Dante has caught up to Homer and Virgil of those anc. Great rendition for the detail curious reader So we think we mostly know the story but rarely does one know the whole story without muscling your way through the read. This is dense, long term, situational reading. The whole story includes the ubiquitous `Inferno' plus the far less known `Pugatorio' and `Paradiso'. Ciardi's deeply footnoted version, I'm certain, to a 100% probability, must contain at least 1 error of some relevance to some reader, . Basic Library Frances Stewart I haven't read this book for 40 years, yet recently have read a lot of references to it. It was time to re-read. It is not as powerful as I remembered (but still epic) and I find I agree with more than I did when I was young. (It was very difficult back then to think that Lust was one of the least of sins hahahahaa) I had thought that when I re-read this, it would be in the original - obviously, not to
The box set contains the trilogy of The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise, plus a biography of Dante—A Life of Dante—which puts the very personal nature of his poetry into perspective.. Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early fourteenth century