Inferno

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Inferno

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ISBN: 9780553213393
author: Dante Alighieri
translator: Allen Mandelbaum
publishing house: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
publication date: 1992
binding: Mass Market Paperback
price: GBP 6.99
number of pages: 432

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the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri    translator: Allen Mandelbaum

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"An exciting, vivid Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."
--Chicago magazine
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."--The Christian Science Monitor
"Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."
--Book Review Digest
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In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.

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