Lectura Dantis

Lectura Dantis: Inferno

by Mandelbaum, Allen Oldcorn, Anthony Ross, Charles Stanley

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The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. 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 feli…

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  • Full title :Lectura Dantis : Inferno / edited by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross.

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The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. 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

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:c1998.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 461 p.)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780520920538, 0520920538, 9786613520272, 6613520276, 1280085762, 9781280085765
  • oclc:ocn780537781
  • LC Classification:PQ4443
  • Dewey Decimal:851/.1

Table of Contents

Canto 1 : The hard begin / Letterio Cassata -- Canto 2 : Dante's authority / Robert Hollander -- Canto 3 : The gate of hell / Eugenio N. Frongia -- Canto 4 : A melancholy Elysium / Manlio Pastore Stocchi -- Canto 5 : The fierce dove / Paolo Valesio.

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Subjects

1200-tallet 1300-tallet Dante (Alighieri) Dante Alighieri forfattere Inferno (Dante Alighieri) Itàlia italiensk litteratur La divina commedia (Dante) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Lyrikk Middelalder POETRY -- Continental European

Writers

Mandelbaum, Allen Oldcorn, Anthony Ross, Charles Stanley

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