{"product_id":"lectura-dantis-inferno-allen-mandelbaum-9780520212701","title":"Lectura Dantis, Inferno: A Canto-By-Canto Commentary","description":"The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as \"exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths,\" and by the late James Merrill as \"lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes.\" Charles Simic called the work \"a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of commentaries on the first part of the \u003ci\u003eComedy\u003c\/i\u003e consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen Mandelbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520212703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520212701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.09w x 1.23d","brand":"Allen Mandelbaum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946693853439,"sku":"9780520212701","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_02e261ff-d7ec-414d-82cc-9090d2226363.jpg?v=1681514601","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lectura-dantis-inferno-allen-mandelbaum-9780520212701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}