The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno

The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno - Paperback

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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno - Paperback

The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno - Paperback

by Dante Alighieri , John D. Sinclair
$24.99
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by Dante Alighieri (Author), John D. Sinclair (Author)

An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine literary criticism.

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Mr. Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY should prove to be an invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who would read this great medieval classic with understanding. The original Italian test and the Sinclair translation are arranged on facing pages, and the commentaries, brilliant examples of genuine literary criticism, appear after each canto.

Number of Pages: 432
Dimensions: 1.04 x 8.56 x 5.54 IN
Publication Date: December 31, 1961
ISBN9780195004120
Author Dante Alighieri , John D. Sinclair
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 1961
LanguageENG- English
Pages432
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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