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This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the...
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| Literature type: | Book |
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English Italian |
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The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri ;
pt. 3 The California Dante |
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This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary. - from the publisher. |
| Item Description: | The Italian text with an English verse translation. |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 427 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | "Bibliographical note": p. 428-429. |
| ISBN: |
0553212044 (pbk.) 9780553212044 (pbk.) : |
| Index Number: | PQ4315 |
| CLC: | I546.25 |
| Call Number: | I546.25/D192-1 |