The Divine Comedy, Part 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140441050 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-02 |
| Language | : | Italian |
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Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Dante Alighieri died in 1321. Barbara Reynolds, retired lecturer in Italian at Cambridge University, holds three honorary doctorates. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. Married to Gemma Donatic, Dante's political activis
“The English Dante of choice.” –Hugh Kenner“Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths.” –Robert Fagles, Princeton University“A marvel of fidelity to the original, of sobriety, and truly, of inspired poetry.” –Henri Peyre, Yale University
In Paradise, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God. The third volume of Dante's Divine ComedyTo the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved – the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lad
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