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  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 3by Robert Durling; Ronald Martinez; Robert Turner

    Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 17.95

    Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators. Reunited with his beloved Beatrice in the Purgatorio, in the Paradiso the poet-narrator journeys with her through the heavenly spheres and comes to know "the state of blessed souls after death." As with the previous volumes, the original Italian and its English translation appear on facing pages. Readers will be drawn... more...

  • Dante's Divine Comedyby Harold M. Priest

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1964; US$ 4.95

    This classic poem of 14th-century Italy is an allegory of a journey through the various levels of heaven and hell. In between, Dante describes Purgatory (Purgatorio). It is the first great poetic work written in Italian. more...

  • Dante in Loveby Harriet Rubin

    Simon & Schuster 2005; US$ 9.99

    Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. He found a vision and a language that made him immortal. Author Harriet Rubin follows Dante's path along the old Jubilee routes that linked monasteries and all roads to Rome. It is a path followed by generations of seekers -- from T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Primo Levi, to Bruce Springsteen. After the poet fled Rome for Siena he walked along the upper Arno, past La Verna, to Bibiena, to Cesena, and to the Po plain. During his nineteen-year journey Dante wrote... more...

  • Dante: The Divine Comedyby Robin Kirkpatrick

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 18.00

    In this accessible introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how an early work such as the Vita nuova is a principal source of the literary achievement of the Comedy. more...

  • Dante and the Romanticsby Antonella Braida

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 90.00

    The British Romantic poets were among the first to realise the centrality of the Divine Comedy for the evolution of the European epic. This study explores the significance of Dante for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and William Blake. more...

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2by David T. Dante Alighieri; Robert M. Durling; Ronald L. Martinez; Robert Turner

    Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 15.00

    Purgatorio' is the second of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dante's masterpiece, 'The Divine Comedy'. Similar to volume I, 'The Inferno', this translation in English prose emphasizes the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text is on facing pages and includes comprehensive notes. more...

  • Dante's Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religionby Gregory B. Stone

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00

    Exploring the Islamic roots of the Western values of tolerance and religious pluralism, this work considers Dante from the perspective of the Arab-Islamic philosophical tradition. It is of interest to Dante scholars and students, generalist medievalists, scholars of medieval philosophy, and others. more...

  • Petrarcaby Joachim Küpper

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2002; US$ 81.20

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  • Familiariaby Francesco Petrarca; Berthe Widmer

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2005; US$ 235.00

    In 1350, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarca  decided to form a collection of all his correspondence. The letters deal with multifarious topics, switch between narration and instruction, and the personal and the general, and are addressed to more...

  • Lectura Dantisby Allen Mandelbaum; Anthony Oldcorn; Charles Ross

    The University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 19.96

    Contains commentary on the Purgatorio by various scholars. This book presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. It provides awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements. more...