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The divine comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri; Allen Mandelbaum; Peter Armour
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©1995.
Series: Everyman's library, 183
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for  Read more...
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Named Person: Dante Alighieri
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dante Alighieri; Allen Mandelbaum; Peter Armour
ISBN: 0679433139 9780679433132
OCLC Number: 32944246
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Description: 798 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: The Inferno --
Purgatorio --
Paradiso.
Series Title: Everyman's library, 183
Other Titles: Divina commedia.
Responsibility: Dante Alighieri ; translated by Allen Mandelbaum ; with an introduction by Eugenio Montale ; and notes by Peter Armour.

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"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets. This Everyman's edition -- containing in one volume all three cantos, 'Inferno, ' 'Purgatorio, ' and 'Paradiso' -- includes an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth century series of illustrations." ***"An epic poem in which the poet describes his spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise -- guided first by the poet Virgil and then by his beloved Beatrice -- which results in a purification of his religious faith."

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