The Portable Dante [electronic resource]
Dante Alighieri2003
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The famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri's two masterworks-The Divine Comedy and
La Vita Nuova-in one volume
A Penguin Classic
As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith.
As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict
universal struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purgatory
and Paradise, and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a
passionate lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunication. As all of
these, Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse
and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and
emotional grandeur.
The Portable Dante captures the scope and fire of Dante's genius as thoroughly
as any single volume can. It contains complete verse translations of The Divine
Comedy and La Vita Nuova , as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction
by the eminent scholar and translator Mar...
Main title:
The Portable Dante [electronic resource] / Dante Alighieri
Author:
Dante Alighieri, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Classics, 2003
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (704)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781101573822
Language:
English
BRN:
438276
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