
The Paradiso
Dante Alighieri(Author)
Signet Classics (Publisher)
Published on 6. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-451-53141-4 (ISBN)
Description
In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
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Paperback (mass)
Dimensions
Height: 163 mm
Width: 110 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
221 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-451-53141-4 (9780451531414)
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Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy, The: The Paradiso
Book
01/2001
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€28.65
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John Ciardi was a distinguished poet and professor, having taught at Harvard and Rutgers universities, and a poetry editor of The Saturday Review. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1955 he won the Harriet Monroe Memorial Award, and in 1956, the Prix de Rome. He died in 1986.
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