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In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture.

"If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-Tribune]]> 15645 189 2377563 book 1308 La Divina Commedia: Inferno total:10213|5:3582|4:3679|3:2272|2:548|1:132| 10213 40670 14346 750 11519 3.98 20136 1472 21790594 90797 34390 0808509578 9780808509578 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168557347m/34390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168557347s/34390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34390.Inferno_The_Divine_Comedy 4.17 143 1308 5 7 false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0800 1908 Wed May 07 11:01:26 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 11:24:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18465252 1017306 15645 0812970063 9780812970067 353 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681m/15645.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681s/15645.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15645.Inferno 3.92 6483 The Divine Comedy.

A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences.

Translation by Anthony Esolen.]]> 1308 5 5 false Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 23 17:38:10 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 18:16:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 29481949 725130 306150 0451527984 9780451527981 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173582786m/306150.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173582786s/306150.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306150.The_Inferno 3.96 872 1308 5 3 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Aug 06 20:43:14 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 20:53:21 -0700 2008 44424534 854147 569284 0451628047 9780451628046 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662692m/569284.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662692s/569284.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569284.The_Inferno 4.08 170 1308 1 3 false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 12:58:15 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 13:08:24 -0800 2009
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This is seriously the best translation of The Inferno that I can imagine. Of course, I don't know Italian, so I c...more...]]> 14867406 252013 591221 0374524521 9780374524524 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176081249m/591221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176081249s/591221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591221.The_Inferno_of_Dante_Bilingual_Edition 4.26 126 terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is also unique, student-friendly, and faithful to the original: "A brilliant success," as Bernard Knox wrote in The New York Review of Books.
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A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences.

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Hell is a very exciting place. While I'm sure a huge portion of it was over my head and I should reread it, I still managed to understand basically what was going on.

I liked how you could sense a sort of mockery in parts of it. The popes and ...more...]]> 78369927 2961500 15645 0812970063 9780812970067 353 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681m/15645.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681s/15645.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15645.Inferno 3.98 10213 The Divine Comedy.

A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences.

Translation by Anthony Esolen.]]> 1308 5 0 false Thu Nov 19 17:08:10 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 17:22:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 77736608 199350 19155 0142437220 9780142437223 30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167200985m/19155.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167200985s/19155.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19155.The_Divine_Comedy_Volume_1_Inferno 4.07 276
Translated with Notes and an Introduction by Mark Musa]]> 1308 4 0 false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 04:48:31 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 05:04:27 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 55320505 1892983 481201 0140448950 9780140448955 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175115743m/481201.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175115743s/481201.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/481201.The_Divine_Comedy_Volume_1_Inferno 4.20 50 The Divine Comedy, Inferno describes Dante's descent in Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicidal Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, Dante must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all—for it is only by encountering Satan himself, in the heart of Hell, that he can truly understand the tragedy of sin. BACKCOVER: “The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism... likely to be the best modern version of Dante.
—Bernard O'Donoghue

“This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation—a deeply informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read.”
—Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania]]> 1308 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 07 18:25:54 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 22:08:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 52777163 455540 15645 0812970063 9780812970067 353 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681m/15645.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681s/15645.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15645.Inferno 3.98 10213 The Divine Comedy.

A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences.

Translation by Anthony Esolen.]]> 1308 1 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 15 09:51:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 10:26:41 -0700 2009 The Inferno is a book about a totally biased queer who writes about him traveling to hell. There, he receives Virgil as his guide and jollily travels along hell's circles (levels). There, h...more...]]> 46484442 457958 1743758 9780374525 22 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1743758.The_Inferno_of_Dante 4.12 96
Yes, this is an epic poem, but don't let that put you off. An excellent introduction provides context for the work, while detailed notes on each canto are a virtual who's who of 13th-century Italian politics, culture, and literature. Best of all, Pinsky's brilliant translation communicates the horror, despair, and terror of hell with such immediacy, you can almost smell the sulfur and feel the heat from the rain of fire as Dante--led by his faithful guide Virgil--descends lower and lower into the pit. Dante's journey through Satan's kingdom must rate as one of the great fictional travel tales of all time, and Pinsky does it great justice. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. ]]> 1308 3 0 false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 15 21:56:48 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 22:04:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 80189482 3002971 15645 0812970063 9780812970067 353 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681m/15645.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681s/15645.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15645.Inferno 3.98 10213 The Divine Comedy.

A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences.

Translation by Anthony Esolen.]]> 1308 4 0 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 07 12:03:22 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 18:44:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12310412 773531 15647 0374525315 9780374525316 40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681m/15647.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681s/15647.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15647.The_Inferno_of_Dante_A_New_Verse_Translation 3.98 10213 terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is also unique, student-friendly, and faithful to the original: "A brilliant success," as Bernard Knox wrote in The New York Review of Books.
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Dante's Inferno is a lot of different things: It's the text that legitimized Italian as a worthy literary language. It's a piece of proselytizing propaganda that intended to terrify the masses into good Catholic ...more...]]> 44001715 534500 15645 0812970063 9780812970067 353 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681m/15645.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676681s/15645.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15645.Inferno 3.98 10213 The Divine Comedy.

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