num_pages: 798
description: This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.
language: English
title: The Divine Comedy
titlecomplete: The Divine Comedy
characters: Brutus, Marcus Junius, Francesca da Rimini, Attila the Hun, Odysseus, Judas Iscariot, Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Achilles, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Roland, Saul (biblical king), Mary (mother of Jesus), Cleopatra, Trajan (emperor), Cerberus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Lucifer, Beatrice (Dante), Charon (mythology), Dante Alighieri, Dido of Carthage
genres: Religion, Philosophy, Poetry, Literature, Italian Literature, Classic Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Italy, Fiction
ratings_count: 146829
series: La Divina Commedia
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category: Tradução, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Everyman's Library