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THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI: VOLUME 2: PURGATORIO
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| By: |
Dante Alighieri, Robert M. Durling (Editor), Robert Turner (Illus) |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195087453 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195087451 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
5 March, 2004 |
| Series: |
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri |
| Pages: |
720 |
| Description: |
Purgatorio is the second of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dantes' masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. Similar to Vol. I: The Inferno, this translation will be into English prose, emphasizing the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages and includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship. A new addition to the notes will be the Intercantica- a section for each canto that discusses its relation to the Inferno. |
| Synopsis: |
The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax. Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages-often similarly numbered cantos-in the Inferno. Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes.Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. |
| Illustrations: |
numerous line drawings & 4 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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