
Lectura Dantis, Inferno
A Canto-by-Canto Commentary
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. February 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
476 pages
978-0-520-21270-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-21270-1 (9780520212701)
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Allen Mandelbaum | Anthony Oldcorn | Charles Ross
Lectura Dantis, Inferno
A Canto-by-Canto Commentary
E-Book
02/1999
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€37.99
Available for download
Persons
Anthony Oldcorn, Professor and Chair of Italian Studies at Brown University, and Charles Ross, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University, have joined with National Book Award winner Allen Mandelbaum, who is W.R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University and Professor of the History of Literary Criticism at the University of Turin, as General Editors of the California Lectura Dantis.
Content
CONTRIBUTORS: John Ahern Teodolinda Barolini Philip R. Berk Giuliana Carugati Letterio Cassata Remo Ceserani Paolo Cherchi Caron Ann Cioffi Charles T. Davis Dante Della Terza Robert M. Durling Steve Ellis Joan M. Ferrante Eugenio N. Frongia Robert Hollander Amilcare A. Iannucci Allen Mandelbaum Giuseppe Mazzotta Susan Noakes James Nohrnberg Anthony Oldcorn Lino Pertile Massimo M. Pesaresi Thomas Peterson Jennifer Petrie Giorgio Petrocchi Vittorio Russo Edoardo Sanguineti John A. Scott Maria Picchio Simonelli Manlio Pastore Stocchi Alfred A. Triolo Paolo Valesio Tibor Wlassics