num_pages: 622
description: This brilliant, standard translation of one of the great classics of Western literature is now made available in a single-volume hardcover edition, for the first time complete and in final form.Although Dante is one of the two who "divide the world between them," the world had to wait until now for a truly accessible translation of Dante into spoken English. Archibald MacLeish describes Ciardi's version as "a text with the clarity and sobriety of a first-rate prose translation which at the same time suggests in powerful and unmistakable ways the run and rhythm of the great original...a spectacular achievement."While the Ciardi translation has become the standard in paperback form in the colleges and universities, the separate paperback volumes were work in progress. Now it is in a permanent edition, completed at last.
language: English
title: The Divine Comedy
titlecomplete: The Divine Comedy
characters: Trajan (emperor), Dante Alighieri, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Charon (mythology), Dido of Carthage, Brutus, Marcus Junius, Cerberus, Odysseus, Saul (biblical king), Mary (mother of Jesus), Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Beatrice (Dante), Achilles, Judas Iscariot, Attila the Hun, Lucifer, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Francesca da Rimini, Roland, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor)
genres: Literature, Classics, Italian Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Italy, Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 146844
series: La Divina Commedia
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name: Deutsch-Italienischer Übersetzerpreis, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prêmio Jabuti
category: Tradução, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company