The Divine Comedy
by Dante
"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington TimesIn this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture."If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-TribuneFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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THE DIVINE COMEDY (Three Volume set)
by DANTE; Translated By Thomas G. Bergin
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NY: Grossman Publishers., 1969. (USA) First Printing No markings, tight square copies, Fine in Good only original slipcase which is split along the top edge. . Three volumes about 34 x 22.5 cm, dark grey boards with off-white linen spine with gold title. Volume I: 281pp. Volume II: 292pp. Volume III:… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso [Signed, Numbered]
by Dante; Birk, Sandow (illustrator and translator)
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Brisbane, CA: Trillium Press, 2005. First Edition. Fine. The numbered edition (100 copies) of Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy, complete in three volumes, with more than 100 signed lithographs bound in, as issued. The artist translated the text with Marcus Sanders and illustrated it after Gustave Doré's well-known 19th century take on Dante's epic literary masterpiece, divided into the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Divine Comedy
by Dante (Longfellow)
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New York: Bigelow, Smith &Co, 1909 A well kept quarter bound in red leather and red cloth. Volume 1 of 3 in a delux edition.The tail of the spine is slightly rubbed as shelf wear. Interior is bright and tight with red marbled end papers. This translation is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow done in 1867. Item Price
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante (author); Lawrence Grant White (translator)
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The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy (3 Volumes)
by Dante (Illustrations by Harry Bennett.)
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New York: Washington Square Press [1966]. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jackets. 244pp. In near fine slipcase. There are very small tears at the tops of the spines of vols. 2 & 3. Illustrations by Harry Bennett. Translated by Louis Biancolli. (Poetry). Item Price
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The Divine Comedy I: Inferno: v. 1 (Classics)
by Alighieri, Dante
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso
by Dante
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The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante (White, transl.)
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Volume 1)
by Dante
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Oxford University Press, 1971. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0192810960 Item Price
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DIVINE COMEDY : INFERNO, PURGATORIO, PAR
by DANTE
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
by Dante
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Divine Comedy, The (Amazing Values)
by Dante
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The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
by Dante
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Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, Item Price
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante
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