The Inferno: v. 1 - Rilegato

Dante Alighieri; Dore, Gustave

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679642617 ISBN 13: 9780679642619

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2002

Riassunto

An introduction and notes accompany this classic epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. He is a published poet who has written numerous scholarly articles on Renaissance and medieval literature. He is the author of Peppers, a book of poetry, and his translations include Lucretius’s De rerum natura and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata.

Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet whose masterpiece The Divine Comedy has exerted a profound influence on Western thought, was born in Florence in May 1265. He entered public life in 1295, later becoming one of the six governing magistrates of Florence. He repeatedly opposed the machinations of Pope Boniface VIII, who was attempting to place all of Tuscany under Papal control, and in 1301 was banished from Florenc

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raordinary 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 Sain

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679642617
• ISBN 13: 9780679642619
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Disegnatore: Dore Gustave
• Numero di pagine: 490
• Redattore: Esolen Anthony M.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile