Divine Comedy

Divine Comedy - Hardcover

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Divine Comedy

Divine Comedy - Hardcover

by Dante Alighieri
$72.56
Sale price  $72.56 Regular price 

Book Overview

by Dante Alighieri (Author), John Ciardi (Translator)

Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages.

Number of Pages: 622
Dimensions: 1.9 x 8.5 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 1977
ISBN9780393044720
Author Dante Alighieri
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedNovember 1977
LanguageENG- English
Pages622
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Dante Alighieri

ROBERT HOLLANDER taught Dante's Divine Comedy to Princeton students for forty-two years, and is the author of a dozen books and more than seventy articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other Italian authors. He is Professor in European Literature Emeritus at Princeton and the founding director of both the Dartmouth Dante Project and the Princeton Dante Project. He has received many awards, including the gold medal of the city of Florence and the gold florin of the Dante Society of America, in recognition of his work on Dante. JEAN HOLLANDER has taught literature and writing at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the College of New Jersey, where she was director of the Writers' Conference for twenty-three years.

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