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  • Dante Alighieri - Poet, Philosopher, Politician

    A concise Biography and a Critical Analysis

    by Rudolf Georg Adam ...
    Dante Alighieri towers at the beginning of Italian, even European literature. He anticipated central ideas of the Renaissance and of ecclesiastical reforms. He is best known for his great poem, the Divine Comedy. His person and his character remain, however, shrouded in mystery. We have not a single line written by his own hand, we have only few and highly sporadic historical documents. Most of ... 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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  • Inferno: The Divine Comedy I

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    by Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Honest Courtesan

    Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

    by Margaret F. Rosenthal ...
    The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, ... Read more

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

    by Robert M. Durling, Ronald L. Martinez ...
    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

    $15.19 USD

  • Paradiso

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

    Volume 2: Purgatorio

    by Robert M. Durling, Robert M. Durling, Robert M. Durling ...
    In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the Inferno (34 cantos), this volume is divided into 33 cantos, written in tercets (groups of 3 lines). The English prose is arranged in tercets to ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Purgatorio

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Infernowas acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Purgatorio

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transition to the lost Earthly Paradise at the mountain’s summit, where he meets his dead love, Beatrice, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Dante: The Essential Commedia

    by Dante Alighieri, Prue Shaw ...
    Prue Shaw’s absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come.The Commedia, Dante’s epic story of one man’s journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in heaven, is one of the greatest works of Western literature, but it can seem daunting to the English-speaking reader. College courses often cherry ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

    Volume 3: Paradiso

    by Robert M. Durling, Robert M. Durling, Robert M. Durling ...
    Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English ... Read more

    $37.79 USD