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The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno. Part 2
Dante Alighieri
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Description for The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno. Part 2
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates. Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 696 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 41. Weight in Grams: 702.
Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the Commentary, marshals every point of information the reader may require: vocabulary; grammar; identification of Dante's characters; historical sources of some of the incidents and, where pertinent, excerpts from those sources ... Read more
Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the Commentary, marshals every point of information the reader may require: vocabulary; grammar; identification of Dante's characters; historical sources of some of the incidents and, where pertinent, excerpts from those sources ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
Series
The Divine Comedy S.
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691018959
SKU
V9780691018959
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno. Part 2
"The publication of the first part of Singleton's translation and commentary provides the most comprehensive annotated edition of the Inferno available in English. It is particularly valuable not only for the wealth of factual material but for the citing and translation of long passages from Dante's sources... An indispensable tool for all serious students of the Divine Comedy in English ... Read more