Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1 : Inferno.
Title:
Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1 : Inferno.
Author:
Alighieri, Dante.
ISBN:
9780199770335
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (709 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Maps -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Inferno -- CANTO 1 -- Notes to Canto 1 -- CANTO 2 -- Notes to Canto 2 -- CANTO 3 -- Notes to Canto 3 -- CANTO 4 -- Notes to Canto 4 -- CANTO 5 -- Notes to Canto 5 -- CANTO 6 -- Notes to Canto 6 -- CANTO 7 -- Notes to Canto 7 -- CANTO 8 -- Notes to Canto 8 -- CANTO 9 -- Notes to Canto 9 -- CANTO 10 -- Notes to Canto 10 -- CANTO 11 -- Notes to Canto 11 -- CANTO 12 -- Notes to Canto 12 -- CANTO 13 -- Notes to Canto 13 -- CANTO 14 -- Notes to Canto 14 -- CANTO 15 -- Notes to Canto 15 -- CANTO 16 -- Notes to Canto 16 -- CANTO 17 -- Notes to Canto 17 -- CANTO 18 -- Notes to Canto 18 -- CANTO 19 -- Notes to Canto 19 -- CANTO 20 -- Notes to Canto 20 -- CANTO 21 -- Notes to Canto 21 -- CANTO 22 -- Notes to Canto 22 -- CANTO 23 -- Notes to Canto 23 -- CANTO 24 -- Notes to Canto 24 -- CANTO 25 -- Notes to Canto 25 -- CANTO 26 -- Notes to Canto 26 -- CANTO 27 -- Notes to Canto 27 -- CANTO 28 -- Notes to Canto 28 -- CANTO 29 -- Notes to Canto 29 -- CANTO 30 -- Notes to Canto 30 -- CANTO 31 -- Notes to Canto 31 -- CANTO 32 -- Notes to Canto 32 -- CANTO 33 -- Notes to Canto 33 -- CANTO 34 -- Notes to Canto 34 -- Additional Notes -- 1. Autobiography in the Divine Comedy (After Canto 2), 551 -- 2. The Body Analogy, 1 (After Canto 11), 552 -- 3. The Old Man of Crete (Canto 14), 555 -- 4. Dante and Brunette Latini (Canto 15), 557 -- 5. Dante and Homosexuality (Canto 16), 559 -- 6. Geryon's Spiral Flight (Canto 17), 560 -- 7. Boniface's Church (Canto 19), 563 -- 8. Dante and the Classical Soothsayers (After Canto 20), 564 -- 9. Autobiography in Cantos 21-23, 567 -- 10. Time and the Thief (Cantos 24-25), 568 -- 11. Ulysses' Last Voyage (Canto 26), 571 -- 12. The Poetry of Schism (Canto 28), 573.
13. The Body Analogy, 2: The Metaphorics of Fraud (After Canto 30), 576 -- 14. Dante's Political Giants (Canto 31), 577 -- 15. Ugolino (Cantos 32-33), 578 -- 16. Christ in Hell (After Canto 34), 580 -- Textual Variants -- Bibliography -- Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Words Discussed in the Notes -- Index of Passages Cited in the Notes -- Index of Proper Names in the Notes -- Index of Proper Names in the Text and Translation.
Abstract:
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 clarity, the rich expressiveness, and the rigorous accuracy of this contemporary prose translation, which preserves to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's syntax, unhampered by any constraints of meter or rhyme. The Italian text has been newly edited with a view to the needs of American and English readers. Martinez' and Durling's Introduction and Notes are designed with the first-time reader of the poem in mind, but will be useful to others as well. The concise Introduction presents essential biographical and historical background and a discussion of the form of the poem. The Notes are more extensive than those in most translations currently available, and they contain much new material. In addition, sixteen short essays explore the autobiographical dimension of the poem, the problematic body analogy, the question of Christ's presence in Hell, and individual cantos that have been the subject of controversy, including those on homosexuality. There is an extensive bibliography, and the indexes (to foreign words, passages cited, proper names in the Notes, and proper names in the text) will make the volume particularly useful. Robert Turner's illustrations include detailed maps of Italy, clearly labeled diagrams of the cosmos and of the structure of Hell, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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