Dante Alighieri
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 ... [... more]
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Enriched Classic Edition is not Singleton's Translation: Contrary to what has been suggested by the two previous reviews, the Pocket Books Enriched Classic edition is not a cheaply priced copy of the Charles Singleton translation. I only became [... more]
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Anthony Esolen
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ... [... more]
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Robert Hollander
Robert Hollander taught Dante's Divine Comedy to Princeton students for forty-two years, and is the author of a dozen books and more than seventy articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other Italian authors. He is Professor in European Literature ... [... more]
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Gustave Dore
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ... [... more]
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Penguin Classics Divine Comedy 01 Inferno
The Inferno: In my search for a copy of Dante's epic poem, the Divine Comedy, I encountered over 10 different copies of the opening part, Inferno. This edition with notes by Mark Musa is exemplary, it offers analysis of each section, and follows the [... more]
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Divine Comedy
A Musical Translation: I was introduced to Ciardi's translation of "The Divine Comedy" in an anthology of continental literature I read in college. At that time, after experiencing fragments of Fagles' horrible "verse" translation of [... more]
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Penguin Classics Divine Comedy 02 Purgatory
The Least Exciting Of The Series: I would not suggest reading this one as a "stand alone." With The Inferno as the most horriffic place Dante's ever been & The Paradiso as the most wonderful, you can imagine (and you'd be correct) that [... more]
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Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy
From Amazon.com: The Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli is probably best known for Birth of Venus and Primavera, two commissions for the young Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. The same delicate, rhythmic line and fanciful imagination can [... more]
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The Divine Comedy
From Amazon.com: You'd expect this to be a travesty. Milla Jovovich is a model and actress (The Fifth Element, He Got Game) who decided to put out an album of dark, lyrical art-rock in the manner of Dead Can Dance or This Mortal Coil. That's a demanding [... more]
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The Divine Comedy
A Musical Translation: I was introduced to Ciardi's translation of "The Divine Comedy" in an anthology of continental literature I read in college. At that time, after experiencing fragments of Fagles' horrible "verse" translation of [... more]
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Divine Comedy
Astonishingly beautiful work, and a lyrical translation: I did an essay on this in first-year university, and when I picked up a random translation at the library, I dreaded having to read something so thick. I was afraid of having to read some clunky [... more]
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