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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 3by Robert Durling; Ronald Martinez; Robert Turner
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 17.95Robert 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...
Commedia Dell'Arteby John Rudlin; Olly Crick
Routledge 2001; US$ 43.95This book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day. more...
Dante's Divine Comedyby Harold M. Priest
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1964; US$ 4.95This 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...
The Italian Commedia and Please be Gentleby David Griffiths
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. Included is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting. more...
Dante in Loveby Harriet Rubin
Simon & Schuster 2005; US$ 9.99Dante 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$ 18.00In 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$ 90.00The 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 Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novelby Peter Bondanella; Andrea Ciccarelli
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00This volume provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Novelists examined include some of the most influential of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. 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$ 15.00Purgatorio' 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...
The Comedies of Machiavelliby Niccolò Machiavelli; David Sices; James B. Atkinson
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 14.95This bilingual edition includes all three examples of Machiavelli's comedic art: sparkling translations of his farcical masterpiece, The Mandrake; of his version of Terence's The Woman From Andros; and of his Plautus-inspired Clizia . more...