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The Divine Comedy

Literature & Fiction

Mandelbaum, Allen

History & Criticism

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before." This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

Lectura Dantis: Inferno: A Canto-by-Canto Commentary

ROSS, CHARLES

Oldcorn, Anthony

University of California Press

This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. The cast of characters is as colorful as before, although this time most of them are headed for salvation. The canto-by-canto commentary allows each contributor his or her individual voice and results in a deeper, richer awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements.

Lectura Dantis, Purgatorio

Inferno: Lectura Dantis (Volume 1)

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

Poetry

Marked by allusion, erudition, and lyricism, Mandelbaum's poems relating the story of the town of Chelm are reflections and explorations of the Jewish tradition

Chelmaxioms : the maxims, axioms, maxioms of Chelm

David R Godine Pub

Ovid in Sicily: A New Verse Translation of Selections from the "metamorphoses" of Ovid, with Foreword, Latin Facing Text, and 14 Color-Plates from the ... Sequence of Paintings by Marialuisa de Romans

Sheep Meadow Press

The Savantasse of Montparnasse

De Romans, Maria Luisa

Sheep Meadow Pr

NY 1987 Sheep Meadow Press. Sm.4to., 203pp., illustrated by Marialuisa de Romans, wraps. Good, minor wear, soiling.

The Savantasse of Montparnasse (With Ten Drawings from 'The Savantasse Scrolls' by Marialuis)

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