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  • Dante's Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition

    Series series Indiana Masterpiece Editions
    "Adds to the body of contemporary versions of the Inferno . . . [includes] detailed textual notes . . . [and] critical essays by the leading Dante scholars." — Library JournalThis new critical edition, including Mark Musa's classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Portable Dante

    Translated by Mark Musa ...
    The famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks—The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova—in one volumeA Penguin ClassicAs a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purgatory and Paradise, and populate all three realms ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Canzoniere

    by Petrarch ...
    "Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes . . . " —Chronicles"As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dante's Vita Nuova

    A Translation and an Essay

    In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love.". . . the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable. . . . This present work offers English readers a lengthy appraisal which should figure in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition

    A Translation and an Essay

    Translated by Mark Musa ...
    In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love.". . . the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable. . . . This present work offers English readers a lengthy appraisal which should figure in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dante's Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition

    Translated by Mark Musa ...
    This new critical edition, including Mark Musa's classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Portable Machiavelli

    Translated by Peter Bondanella, Mark Musa ...
    Series series Portable Library
    In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli’s contribution to Western political theory.The Portable Machiavelli brings together the complete texts of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Petrarch

    The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

    by Mark Musa ...
    "Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch’s Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet’s own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes... " —Chronicles"As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Coming from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchorite of the great medieval city of Norwich, nevertheless uses her womanlines and the English vernacular of the day to describe a series of revelations which she received from God in the year 1373. She identifies the female nature of Christ's suffering and the motherhood of God, using images from ... Read more

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  • The Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, andhas entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a ... Read more

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  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno

    This new translation presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. Readers will prize the directness and ... Read more

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