The Divine Comedy: Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Overview

This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.

"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781458708748
Publisher:	ReadHowYouWant
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	180 KB

About the Author

Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante (c. 1265-1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Introduction	xi
	Inferno	1
	Illustration of Dante's Inferno	3
	Afterword	361
	Index	367
	Biographical note	375