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Author Alighieri, Dante

Title The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (673 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; MAPS; Abbreviations; Introduction; INFERNO; FIGURES; ADDITIONAL NOTES; Textual Variants; Bibliography; Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Words Discussed in the Notes; Index of Passages Cited in the Notes; Index of Proper Names in the Notes; Index of Proper Names in the Text and Translation
Summary This new translation presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. Readers will prize the directness and clarity, the rich expressiveness, and the rigorous accuracy of this contemporary prose translation, which preserves to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's syntax, unhampered by any con
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Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia. English & Italian.
SUBJECT Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) fast
Form Electronic book
Author Durling, Robert M
Martinez, Ronald L
ISBN 9780199770335
0199770336