{"title":"Robert M. Durling","description":"Robert M. Durling is Professor Emeritus of English and Italian Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ronald L. Martinez is Professor of Italian at Brown University. Their works together include Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio and Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's \"Rime petrose.\"","products":[{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-of-dante-alighieri-volume-1-inferno-paperback","title":"The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and sardonic humour, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA newly edited version of the Italian text can be on facing pages, and this edition includes fully comprehensive notes as well as sixteen essays on special subjects.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376591077599,"sku":"9780195087444","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K92P0qrQNv9780195087444.webp?v=1789218103"},{"product_id":"purgatorio-paperback","title":"Purgatorio - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up \u003cem\u003eThe Divine Comedy. Purgatorio\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e (34 cantos), this volume is divided into 33 cantos, written in tercets (groups of 3 lines). The English prose is arranged in tercets to facilitate easy correspondence to the verse form of the Italian on the facing page, enabling the reader to follow both languages line by line. In an effort to capture the peculiarities of Dante's original language, this translation strives toward the literal and sheds new light on the shape of the poem. Again the text of \u003cem\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/em\u003e follows Petrocchi's \u003cem\u003eLa Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata\u003c\/em\u003e, but the editor has departed from Petrocchi's readings in a number of cases, somewhat larger than in the previous \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e, not without consideration of recent critical readings of the \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e by scholars such as Lanza (1995, 1997) and Sanguineti (2001). As before, Petrocchi's punctuation has been lightened and American norms have been followed. However, without any pretensions to being \"critical\", the text presented here is electic and being not persuaded of the exclusive authority of any manuscript, the editor has felt free to adopt readings from various branches of the stemma. One major addition to this second volume is in the notes, where is found the \u003cem\u003eIntercantica\u003c\/em\u003e - a section for each canto that discusses its relation to the \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e and which will make it easier for the reader to relate the different parts of the \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378176622815,"sku":"9780195087451","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EeUwg7s1Rx9780195087451.webp?v=1789250777"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-m-durling.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}