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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback, New edition)
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R449
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In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three
volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the
second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing
Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the
Inferno (34 cantos), this volume is divided into 33 cantos, written
in tercets (groups of 3 lines). The English prose is arranged in
tercets to facilitate easy correspondence to the verse form of the
Italian on the facing page, enabling the reader to follow both
languages line by line. In an effort to capture the peculiarities
of Dante's original language, this translation strives toward the
literal and sheds new light on the shape of the poem. Again the
text of Purgatorio follows Petrocchi's La Commedia secondo l'antica
vulgata, but the editor has departed from Petrocchi's readings in a
number of cases, somewhat larger than in the previous Inferno, not
without consideration of recent critical readings of the Comedy by
scholars such as Lanza (1995, 1997) and Sanguineti (2001). As
before, Petrocchi's punctuation has been lightened and American
norms have been followed. However, without any pretensions to being
"critical," the text presented here is electic and being not
persuaded of the exclusive authority of any manuscript, the editor
has felt free to adopt readings from various branches of the
stemma. One major addition to this second volume is in the notes,
where is found the Intercantica - a section for each canto that
discusses its relation to the Inferno and which will make it easier
for the reader to relate the different parts of the Comedy as a
whole.
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