The Inferno (Dover Thrift Editions)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486442888 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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He entered into Florentine politics in 1295, but he and his party were forced into exile in a hostile political climate in 1301. She is Associate Editor of the Dictionary of Italian Literature (2d rev. Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence to a family of minor nobility. She is Associate Editor of the Dictionary of Italian Literature (2d rev. One of the first poets to take the landscape and stories of North America as his subjects, Longfellow became immense
He was given honorary degrees at the great universities of Oxford and Cambridge, invited to Windsor by Queen Victoria, and called by request upon the Prince of Wales. He entered into Florentine politics in 1295, but he and his party were forced into exile in a hostile political climate in 1301. He died on March 24, 1882.Jody Robin Shiffman is Associate Instructor of Italian at Indiana University. She is Associate Editor of the Dictionary of Italian Literature (2d rev. About the Author Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence to a family of mi
A powerful translation of a masterpiece OwlSong There have been several excellent translations of Dante in the past few years, all worth reading in their own right. But I retain a special affection for John Ciardi's version, as it's the first one I ever read, at the unprepared & overwhelmed age of 15. I knew of its reputation as a major classic & I was ignorant enough to be unfazed by the prospect of reading it.Well, to say that I was soon in over my head is an understatement! But Ciar. For Another Generation of Young Readers Dante's world is widely known and now a well-recognized part of our heritage. This purchase was for the education of yet another generation of young readers, whose own world expands with each of Dante's pages. Recommended.. Shavon Barnett said Thrilled. I am glad to have received this book I'm very excited about the class I will be taking that required this book. I will come back and adjust my review when the class is finished and I see how the book ties in with the class
The first of the three major canticles in La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), this fourteenth-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise. A skilled linguist who taught modern languages at Harvard, Longfellow was among the first to make Dante’s visionary poem accessible to American readers.. His encounters with historical and mythological creatures — each symbolic of a particular vice or crime — blend vivid and shocking imagery with graceful lyricism in one of the monumental works of world literature.This acclaimed translation was rendered by the beloved nineteenth-century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Here at last that much suffering reader will fin