Inferno by Dante

Inferno (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345483577)

Vendor: Dante Alighieri
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Format: Paperback
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Inferno by Dante

Inferno

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Inferno by Dante

Inferno

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Format: Paperback
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An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen

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.

Author: Dante Alighieri
ISBN-10: 034548357X
ISBN-13: 9780345483577
Publisher: Modern Library
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2005
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.20w x 1.00d
By Dante Alighieri
By Dante Alighieri
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