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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Volume 2, Purgatorio. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 95012740 |
Named Person: | Dante Alighieri; Dante Alighieri |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dante Alighieri; Robert M Durling; Ronald L Martinez |
ISBN: | 1280449837 9781280449833 9786610449835 661044983X 0198024827 9780198024828 1601299656 9781601299659 |
OCLC Number: | 632737346 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 704 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Abbreviations; Introduction; PURGATORIO; CANTO 1; CANTO 2; CANTO 3; CANTO 4; CANTO 5; CANTO 6; CANTO 7; CANTO 8; CANTO 9; CANTO 10; CANTO 11; CANTO 12; CANTO 13; CANTO 14; CANTO 15; CANTO 16; CANTO 17; CANTO 18; CANTO 19; CANTO 20; CANTO 21; CANTO 22; CANTO 23; CANTO 24; CANTO 25; CANTO 26; CANTO 27; CANTO 28; CANTO 29; CANTO 30; CANTO 31; CANTO 32; CANTO 33; VERGIL, ECLOGUE IV; GUIDO CAVALCANTI'S ""PASTORELLA""; ADDITIONAL NOTES; Textual Variants; Bibliography; Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Foreign Words Discussed in the Notes; Index of Passages Cited in the Notes |
Other Titles: | Divina commedia. |
Responsibility: | edited and translated by Robert M. Durling ; introduction and notes by Ronald L. Martinez and Robert M. Durling ; illustrations by Robert Turner. |
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This new edition provides a powerful example of how a sensitive handling of the material can enhance our reading of the poem, rather than entice us with the illusory prospect of fully grasping its meaning. The book's great virtue is that its focus is the poem itself, in the original. * Matthew Treherne, Times Literary Supplement * Durling and Martinez handle the scholarship with just the lightness of touch that is required. Nowhere is this clearer than in their treatment of the theology of the Purgatorio. * Matthew Treherne, Times Literary Supplement * ... this book makes the case that we should approach the poem in the spirit of the Italian word "peregrini", as travellers in meaningful search. We are richer for it. * Matthew Treherne, Times Literary Supplement * Read more...

