Inferno (Bantam Classics)
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Inferno (Bantam Classics)
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.Review"An exciting, vivid Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."--Chicago magazine"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner."Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University."Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."--The Christian Science Monitor"Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."--Book Review DigestFrom the Inside FlapIn this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.From the Back CoverThis timeless Christian allegory has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery fo its own identity. In the Inferno, the first of the Comedy's three parts, Dante is conducted by the spirit of the classical poet Virgil through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his arduous journey toward God.About the AuthorDante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. His early poetry falls into the tradition of love poetry that passed from the Provencal to such Italian poets as Guido Cavalcanti, Dante's friend and mentor. Dante's first major work is the Vita Nuova, 1293-1294. This sequence of lyrics, sonnets, and prose narrative describes his love, first earthly, then spiritual, for Beatrice, whom he had first seen as a child of nine, and who had died when Dante was 25. Dante married about 1285, served Florence in battle, and rose to a position of leadership in the bitter factional politics of the city-state. As one of the city's magistrates, he found it necessary to banish leaders of the so-called "Black" faction, and his friend Cavalcanti, who like Dante was a prominent "White." But after the Blacks seized control of Florence in 1301, Dante himself was tried in absentia and was banished from the city on pain of death. He never returned to Florence. We know little about Dante's life in exile. Legend has it that he studied at Paris, but if so, he returned to Italy, for his last years were spent in Verona and Ravenna. In exile he wrote his Convivio, kind of poetic compendium of medieval philosophy, as well as a political treatise, Monarchia. He began his Comedy (later to be called the Divine Comedy) around 1307-1308. On a diplomatic mission to Venice in 1321, Dante fell ill, and returned to Ravenna, where he died.?Allen Mendelbaum's five verse volumes are:Chelmaxions;The Savantasse of Montparnasse;Journeyman;Leaves of Absence; andA Lied of Letterpress. His volumes of verse translation includeThe Aeneid of Virgil, a University of California Press volume (now available from Bantam) for which he won a National Book Award; theInferno,Purgatorio, andParadiso volumes of the California Dante (now available from Bantam);The Odyssey of Homer (now available from Bantam);The Metamorphoses of Ovid, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry;Ovid in Sicily;Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti;Selected Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo; andDavid Maria Turoldo. Mandelbaum is co-editor with Robert Richardson Jr. ofThree Centuries of American Poetry (Bantam Books) and, with Yehuda Amichai, of the eight volumes of the JPS Jewish Poetry Series. After receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia, he was in the Society of Fellows at Harvard. While chairman of the Ph.D. program in English at the Graduate Center of CUNY, he was a visi
Specification of Inferno (Bantam Classics)
GENERAL | |
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Author | Dante Alighieri |
Binding | Mass Market Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | Illustrated |
ISBN-10 | 553213393 |
ISBN-13 | 97812 |
Publisher | Bantam Classics |
Publication Year | 01-01-1982 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 4.16 inch. |
Length | 0.92 inch. |
Width | 6.86 inch. |
Weight | 0.5 pounds. |
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