{"product_id":"dante-dante-alighieri-9781324096207","title":"Dante: The Essential Commedia","description":"\u003cp\u003eDante's epic story of one man's journey from darkness to the revelation of divine light is one of the greatest works of Western literature. Because of its length and its language, it is viewed as forbidding. College courses often cherry-pick from the \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e and barely glance at \u003cem\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eParadiso\u003c\/em\u003e. In \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Commedia\u003c\/em\u003e, Prue Shaw, a renowned Dante scholar, fillets the epic to create an absorbing tour of all three realms of the afterlife. Extensive passages of the work's greatest poetry, astutely excerpted, are offered in translation alongside the original, making it easy to read Dante in English, Italian, or both. The translation into modern, idiomatic English avoids archaisms, padding, and syntactic contortions. With no loss of rigor, a complex text is rendered accessible by a teacher whose decades of experience enable her to highlight those aspects of the poem--the drama, the poetry, the intellectual excitement--any reader will appreciate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dante Alighieri, Prue Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324096209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324096207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Dante Alighieri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46881038434559,"sku":"9781324096207","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_259d7937-bd40-4c71-9d68-33a0d0728feb.jpg?v=1747970481","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dante-dante-alighieri-9781324096207","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}