Purgatorio

Name: Purgatorio
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ISBN: 9780385497008

ISBN-10: 0385497008

ISBN-13: 9780385497008

Edition: 2004

Authors: Dante, Jean Hollander, Robert Hollander, Dante

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Following the Hollanders' widely acclaimed English rendering of Inferno, PURGATORIO, the second canticle in Dante's immortalDIVINE COMEDY, enters English in the best-the clearest, most accurate, most readable-translation in decades, with unsurpassedscholarship in its introduction and with extensive notes.PURGATORIO relates in thirty-three cantos Dante's progress, still with Virgil as his guide, up the mountains of purgatory, where soulsexpiate their sins before they enter heaven. As hell has circles, purgatory has terraces, one above the other, each representing one of theseven mortal sins. In each, an appropriate type of penance is practiced, and the spirit ascending the mountain must…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.99" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Jean Hollander, poet, teacher, and director of the Writers Conference at the College of New Jersey.

Robert Hollander is the author of a dozen monographs, editions, and translations and some six dozen articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other writers. A member of Princeton's Department of Romance Languages and the former chairman of its Department of Comparative Literature, he has received the Gold Medal of the city of Florence in recognition of his Dante scholarship.