Divine Comedy: Illustrated Edition

Divine Comedy: Illustrated Edition - Paperback

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Divine Comedy: Illustrated Edition
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Divine Comedy: Illustrated Edition - Paperback

Divine Comedy: Illustrated Edition - Paperback

by Dante Alighieri , H. W. Longfellow , Gustave Doré
$31.00
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Book Overview

The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view of the 14th century. The first-person narrative describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God. In Dante's work, Virgil is presented as human reason and Beatrice is presented as divine knowledge. This edition contains the famed illustrations by Gustave Doré which is matched by the inimitable translation of H. W. Longfellow, the first and formidable American translator of the Divine Comedy who is still considered as one of the best translators of this great classic.
ISBN9788027339709
Author Dante Alighieri , H. W. Longfellow , Gustave Doré
PublisherE-Artnow
GenreHistory and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages596
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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.
About Gustave Doré
French illustrator Gustave Doré (1833-83) began his prolific career at the age of 15, and his dramatic engravings have exercised an incalculable influence over latter-day artists. The remarkable scope of his work ranges from Milton, Dante, and the Bible to Rabelais, Shakespeare, and street scenes of 19th-century London.

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