The Divine Comedy by Raffel, Burton

The Divine Comedy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810126725)

Vendor: Dante Alighieri
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Format: Hardcover
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The Divine Comedy by Raffel, Burton

The Divine Comedy

$35.00
The Divine Comedy by Raffel, Burton

The Divine Comedy

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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At the midpoint of his life, during Holy Week in 1300, Dante awakes to himself in the middle of a forest so dark that the sun's light cannot penetrate its gloom. of the wildness and brutality of the woods, Dante cries out for help, and thus begins one of Western literature's greatest epic journeys.

The Divine Comedy follows Dante the pilgrim--guided by the great Roman poet Virgil, then by the love of his life, Beatrice--as he travels downward through Hell, then upward through Purgatory in order to reach Paradise and witness the love that moves the sun and the stars. Raffel's translation vividly captures the divine contrapasso, the ultimate case of the punishment the crime, in the Inferno, while fathoming the complexity of the Purgatorio and the ecstasy of the Paradiso.

One of the world's greatest works of literature, Dante's Commedia revolutionized poetry and the Italian language. This epic poem was the to be written in the vernacular of the Italian people rather than in Latin. In it, Dante weaves the best of classical literature from Virgil, Statius, Aristotle, and Ovid with staples from the Christian tradition (including the Scriptures, Augustine, and Aquinas), into a colorful medieval tapestry that depicts at once the vividly checkered history of church and empire.

Author: Dante Alighieri
ISBN-10: 0810126729
ISBN-13: 9780810126725
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2010
Pages: 888
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.18lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.38w x 2.22d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2010 pg. 72
By Dante Alighieri
By Dante Alighieri
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DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) was born in Florence to a prominent family and trained as a pharmacist. He fought in the Battle of Campaldino and was active in the internecine Florentine politics of the time, which resulted in his exile. During this time, he began writing Commedia, which he finished shortly before his death in Ravenna.

BURTON RAFFEL is a teacher and a poet as well as the acclaimed translator of Chaucer, Cervantes, Rabelais, and Stendahl. His translation of Beowulf has sold over a million copies. Raffel is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

PAUL J. CONTINO is the Professor of Great Books at Pepperdine University in California.

HENRY L. CARRIGAN JR. is the assistant director and senior editor at Northwestern University Press. He is the editor of works by Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Catherine of Siena, among other Christian classics. He reviews books for national newspapers and literary magazines and taught Dante's Commedia for fourteen years at Otterbein College in Ohio.

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