Lectura Dantis - Inferno A Canto-by-Canto Commentary

Name: Lectura Dantis - Inferno A Canto-by-Canto Commentary
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ISBN: 9780520212701

ISBN-10: 0520212703

ISBN-13: 9780520212701

Edition: 1998

Authors: Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross

List price: $38.95

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The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante'sDivine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 474
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



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