This first volume of this new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Inferno and, on facing pages, a new prose translation (the first in twenty-five years). The editor's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell,…
This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings tha…
by Dante Alighieri, Musa, Mark
fromPenguin classics
In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translations that enabled his versions of the Infrerno and Purgatory to capture the vibrant power and full dramatic force of Dante's poetry. Dante relates his mystical interpreta…
In the final canticle in "The Divine Comedy" [the author] shares the ultimate goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order ... This epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensity - an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternit…
by Dante Alighieri, Moser, Barry, Mandelbaum, Allen
fromCalifornia Dante
by Dante Alighieri, Moser, Barry, Mandelbaum, Allen
fromCalifornia Dante
by Dante Alighieri, Dante Alighieri, Moser, Barry, Mandelbaum, Allen
fromThe divine comedy of Dante Alighieri
by Dante Alighieri, Moser, Barry, Mandelbaum, Allen, Magnus, Laury
fromBantam classic