Inferno - Hardcover

Dante Alighieri; Zappulla, Elio

 
9780679442806: Inferno
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679442804 ISBN 13: 9780679442806
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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An accessible new translation, accompanied by notes and introduction, recreates the narrative immediacy of Dante's masterpiece while preserving its theological complexity and Christian passion for the divine

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Elio Zappullo lives in Stony Brook, New York.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

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try, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--<i>Washington Times</i><br><br>In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the <b>Inferno</b>, the first of the three canticles of Dante's <b>The Divine Comedy</b>, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the firs

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679442804
ISBN 13 
9780679442806
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
314
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