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- ISBN
- 9780142437544
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0142437549
ISBN-13
9780142437544
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2369217
Product Key Features
Book Title
Portable Dante
Number of Pages
704 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, European / General, General, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry, Fiction, Literary Collections
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
TitleLeading
The
Notes by
Musa, Mark
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
851/.1
Table Of Content
The Portable DanteEditor's Introduction Translator's Note The Divine Comedy Inferno Purgatory Paradise Vita Nuova Selected Bibliography
Synopsis
The famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri's two masterworks-- The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova --in one volume A Penguin Classic As 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 with recognizable human beings. As a passionate lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunication. As all of these, Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante captures the scope and fire of Dante's genius as thoroughly as any single volume can. It contains complete verse translations of The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova , as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by the eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators., The famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri's two masterworks- The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova -in one volume A Penguin Classic As 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 with recognizable human beings. As a passionate lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunication. As all of these, Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante captures the scope and fire of Dante's genius as thoroughly as any single volume can. It contains complete verse translations of The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova , as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by the eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
LC Classification Number
PQ4315.A3
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