Screen LibraryInferno : a new verse translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /
Presents an American English translation of Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri's story of a man making his way through the torment of Hell in search of Paradise, and includes an introduction, explanatory annotations, a map of fourteenth-century Italy, excerpts from sources that influenced Dante&#...
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| Group Author: | ; |
| Published: |
W. W. Norton ＆ Company, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2008] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Italian |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Norton critical edition. |
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| Summary: |
Presents an American English translation of Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri's story of a man making his way through the torment of Hell in search of Paradise, and includes an introduction, explanatory annotations, a map of fourteenth-century Italy, excerpts from sources that influenced Dante's writing, twelve critical essays, and a chronology of Dante's life and work. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 345). |
| ISBN: |
9780393977967 (paperback) : 039397796X (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PQ4315 |
| CLC: |
I546.072 I546.23 |
| Call Number: | I546.23/D192-16 |
| Contents: |
The Plan of Dante's Hell -- Map: Italy, around 1300 -- The Text of Inferno -- Backgrounds and Contexts -- Dante in His Own Voice -- Love and the gracious heart / The tower of Babel / On knowledge; literature; government / On nobility and government / Sources and Influences -- From the Aeneid / From The Confessions / I take great pleasure in the joyous season of spring / Love returns always to a noble heart / A lady bids me / The One Holy, i.e. Church / Criticism -- Dante's Prologue Scene / |