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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Alighieri, Dante
Durling, Robert M.
Durling, Robert M.

Hardcover

Series: Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Book 1

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0195087402
ISBN13: 9780195087406
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 29 1996
Pages: 672
Weight: 2.39
Height: 1.95 Width: 6.51 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians. Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax.

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