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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA INC International Concepts
ISBN-139780679433132
eBay Product ID (ePID)90195113
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in One Volume)
AuthorDante Alighieri
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature, Poetry
Publication Year1995
Dimensions
Item Height211mm
Item Width135mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorDante Alighieri
Series TitleEveryman's Library Classics Series
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States