Dante: The Divine Comedy

Author(s): Dante Alighieri (Translated by Allen Mandelbaum)

Classics

This edition prints all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - in the recent English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction and explanatory notes on each canto by the noted Dante scholar, Peter Armour.


This is a beautiful hardback edition of one of the world's greatest masterworks and should prove to be the most accessible for students and general readers alike. It includes Botticelli's glorious and relatively unknown illustrations of The Divine Comedy, drawn in the 1480s.


This Everyman’s edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.


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Dante Alighieri, born in Florence, Italy, c. 1265, is considered one of the world’s greatest poets. His use of the Florentine dialect established it as the basis for modern Italian. His late medieval epic, The Divine Comedy, was above all inspired, as was all his poetry, by his unrequited love for Beatrice, a woman he may have seen only from afar. He died in 1321, having completed his great work, yet an exile from his native city.

General Fields

  • : 9781857151831
  • : Everyman
  • : Everyman's Library
  • : March 1995
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Dante Alighieri (Translated by Allen Mandelbaum)
  • : Hardback with dust jacket
  • : Sandro Botticelli
  • : 851.1
  • : 798
  • : illustrations