Inferno by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631491078)

Vendor: Dante Alighieri
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Format: Paperback
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Inferno by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno

$13.95
Inferno by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and his faithful guide, Virgil, as they traverse the complex geography of Hell, confronting its many threats, macabre punishments, and historical figures, before reaching the deep chamber where Satan himself resides. Now, in this new translation, Clive James communicates not just the transcendent poetry of Dante's language but also the excitement and terror of his journey through the underworld. Instead of Dante's original terza rima, a form which in English tends to show the strain of composition, James employs fluently linked quatrains, thereby conveying the seamless flow of Dante's poetry and the headlong momentum of the action. As James writes in his introduction, Dante's great poem "can still astonish us, whether we believe in the supernatural or not. At the very least it will make us believe in poetry."

Author: Dante Alighieri
ISBN-10: 1631491075
ISBN-13: 9781631491078
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2015
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d
By Dante Alighieri
By Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)was an Italian poet, writer, and political thinker. After studying at the University of Bologna, he married and had four children. Dante was exiled from his hometown of Florence in 1302 due to his political leanings, finally settling in the city of Ravenna in 1307, when he began writing "The Divine Comedy."

John Lotherington has written widely on Renaissance literature and history. He is the editor and author of "Years of Renewal: European History 1470-1600."

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