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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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Description for The Divine Comedy
Paperback. Translator(s): Sisson, C. H. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages, line drawings, maps, tables. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 526.
Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey - the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide leaves him to encounter Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise. Dante conceived the poem as the new epic of Christendom, and he creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into ... Read more
Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey - the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide leaves him to encounter Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise. Dante conceived the poem as the new epic of Christendom, and he creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199535644
SKU
V9780199535644
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-38
About Dante Alighieri
Charles H. Sisson is a well-known poet and translator, and editor of Poetry Nation Review. David Higgins is Head of Italian Studies at the University of Bristol, and is the author of Dante and the Bible (1992).
Reviews for The Divine Comedy
`The pleasingly plain, readable English well reflects Dante's original eloquence.' The Times What is amazing about Dante's language is the fluency, the plainness, the simplicity - the sheer approachability - of his words. The sheer formal mastery of the man is quite amazing.
Michael Glover, New Statesman & Society
Michael Glover, New Statesman & Society