The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

Dante Alighieri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679433139 ISBN 13: 9780679433132

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1995

Synopsis

This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. 

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.

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From the Back Cover:

This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

From the Inside Flap:

Introduction by Eugenio Montale; Translation by Allen Mandelbaum

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679433139
• ISBN 13: 9780679433132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 798