The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

2012-09-21 Art

Author : Gustave Doré
Release : 2012-09-21
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by : Gustave Doré

Download or read book The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy written by Gustave Doré. This book was released on 2012-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 135 fantastic scenes depict the passion and grandeur of Dante's masterpiece — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise.

The Divine Comedy

2010-01-01 Literary Collections

Author : Dante Alighieri
Release : 2010-01-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Divine Comedy by : Dante Alighieri

Download or read book The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XX features The Divine Comedy, the masterpiece by Italian poet DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). Written in the vernacular-a groundbreaking step for literature-it is considered the greatest work in the Italian language and an important explication of the medieval mindset, particularly regarding religion. The journey of Dante, as his own fictional protagonist, through the afterlife has inspired writers from Geoffrey Chaucer to T.S. Eliot to today's popular novelists, filmmakers and videogame designers, and continues to profoundly influence modern ideas of heaven and hell.

The Divine Comedy

2013-02-26 Poetry

Author : Dante Alighieri
Release : 2013-02-26
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 382/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Divine Comedy by : Dante Alighieri

Download or read book The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful hardcover edition–containing all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations. The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Dante's Inferno

2019-10-10 Poetry

Author : Dante Alighieri
Release : 2019-10-10
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dante's Inferno written by Dante Alighieri. This book was released on 2019-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IN the midway of this our mortal life,I found me in a gloomy wood, astrayGone from the path direct: and e'en to tellIt were no easy task, how savage wildThat forest, how robust and rough its growth,Which to remember only, my dismay...

Inferno

2018 Hell

Author : Dante Alighieri
Release : 2018
Genre : Hell
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Book Rating : 868/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Inferno by : Dante Alighieri

Download or read book Inferno written by Dante Alighieri. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enthralling new translation of Dante's Inferno "immediately joins ranks with the very best" (Richard Lansing). One of the world's transcendent literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dante's journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil, when in midlife he strays from his path in a dark wood. In this vivid verse translation into contemporary English, Peter Thornton makes the classic work fresh again for a new generation of readers. Recognizing that the Inferno was, for Dante and his peers, not simply an allegory but the most realistic work of fiction to date, he points out that hell was a lot like Italy of Dante's time. Thornton's translation captures the individuals represented, landscapes, and psychological immediacy of the dialogues as well as Dante's poetic effects. The product of decades of passionate dedication and research, his translation has been hailed by the leading Dante scholars on both sides of the Atlantic as exceptional in its accuracy, spontaneity, and vividness. Those qualities and its detailed notes explaining Dante's world and references make it both accessible for individual readers and perfect for class adoption.

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