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| Named Person: | Dante Alighieri; Dante Alighieri |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dante Alighieri; Anthony M Esolen; Gustave Doré |
| ISBN: | 0679642617 9780679642619 0812970063 9780812970067 |
| OCLC Number: | 50846507 |
| Description: | xxv, 490 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Biographical note -- List of illustrations -- Introduction / Anthony Esolen -- The Inferno -- Appendix A : Virgil, from the Aeneid -- Appendix B : From the Visio sancti Pauli (The vision of Saint Paul) -- Appendix C : Thomas Aquinas, from the Summa theologiae (Summa of theology) and The compendium of theology -- Appendix D : Dante, from De monarchia (On monarchy) -- Appendix E : Dante, from Il convivio -- Appendix F : Boniface VIII, Unam sanctam (1302) -- Appendix G : Bertran de Born, "Be'm platz lo gais temps de pascor" -- Notes. |
| Other Titles: | Inferno. |
| Responsibility: | Dante Alighieri ; translated, edited, and with an introduction, by Anthony Esolen ; illustrations by Gustave Doré. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Publisher's description: Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art. Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante's most important sources--from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians--that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.
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