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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Volume 3: Paradiso (Hardcover)
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Volume 3: Paradiso (Hardcover)
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Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso
completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's
earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered
high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers
can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual
ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living
Italian-to-English translators.
Reunited with his beloved Beatrice in the Purgatorio, in the
Paradiso the poet-narrator journeys with her through the heavenly
spheres and comes to know "the state of blessed souls after death."
As with the previous volumes, the original Italian and its English
translation appear on facing pages. Readers will be drawn to
Durling's precise and vivid prose, which captures Dante's
extraordinary range of expression--from the high style of divine
revelation to colloquial speech, lyrical interludes, and scornful
diatribes against corrupt clergy.
This edition boasts several unique features. Durling's introduction
explores the chief interpretive issues surrounding the Paradiso,
including the nature of its allegories, the status in the poem of
Dante's human body, and his relation to the mystical tradition. The
notes at the end of each canto provide detailed commentary on
historical, theological, and literary allusions, and unravel the
obscurity and difficulties of Dante's ambitious style . An unusual
feature is the inclusion of the text, translation, and commentary
on one of Dante's chief models, the famous cosmological poem by
Boethius that ends the third book of his Consolation of Philosophy.
A substantial section of Additional Notes discusses myths, symbols,
and themes that figure in all three cantiche of Dante's
masterpiece. Finally, the volume includes a set of indexes that is
unique in American editions, including Proper Names Discussed in
the Notes (with thorough subheadings concerning related themes),
Passages Cited in the Notes, and Words Discussed in the Notes, as
well as an Index of Proper Names in the text and translation. Like
the previous volumes, this final volume includes a rich series of
illustrations by Robert Turner.
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