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The Harvest and the Lamp, the third volume of the Colosseum Books
series, is a singular collection of poems in a wide variety of
forms and voices. Author Andrew Frisardi writes on fundamental
human themes such as love and desire, death and grief, the nature
of the self and self-transcendence in a tone that ranges from
serious to witty to exuberant. The poems are often set in Italy,
where Frisardi has lived for a number of years, drawing on natural
or concrete imagery as well as the imaginal or symbolic. Frisardi
composes in a number of forms: sonnet and sestina, triolet and
ghazal, nonce forms and free verse, gracefully and with a fresh use
of diction and rhyme. As the late poet-translator Brett Foster put
it, "Andrew Frisardi's [poems] are exquisitely made things, many
angled and shining brightly. Ear, eye, and mind do their elegant,
exact work." Frisardi is an internationally noted translator and
independent scholar of Dante, and Dante's impact appears directly
or indirectly in much of his poetry, including a few translations
in this volume. The poet-biographer Paul Mariani has written that
in Frisardi's poetry one finds the "resins of the classics
everywhere. Add wit, sensitivity, humor and the recurring shock of
recognition, then sit back and enjoy what Andrew Frisardi has
prepared for you. Then come back and taste again for the sheer
pleasure of the company.
A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist
movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the
leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is
renowned and loved for its powerful insight and emotion, and its
exquisite music. Yet, unlike many of his peers, Ungaretti has never
been adequately presented to English readers. This large bilingual
selection, translated with great sensitivity and fidelity by Andrew
Frisardi, captures Ungaretti in all of his phases: from his early
poems, written in the trenches of northern Italy during World War
I, to the finely crafted erotic and religious poetry of his second
period, to the visceral, elegiac poetry of the years following the
death of his son and the occupation of Rome during World War II, to
the love poems of the poet's old age.
Frisardi's in-depth introduction details the world in which
Ungaretti's work took shape and exerted its influence. In addition
to the poet's own annotations, an autobiographical afterword,
"Ungaretti on Ungaretti," further illuminates the poet's life and
art. Here is a compelling, rewarding, and comprehensive version of
the work of one of the greatest modern European poets.
Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a
series of self-commentaries on three of Dante's long poems. These
allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for
philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition. The prose
is written in Italian so that those who were not educated in Latin
could take part in what Dante called his 'banquet of knowledge'. In
this edition, eminent Dante translator-scholar Andrew Frisardi
offers the first fully annotated translation of the work into
English, with an extensive introduction, making Dante's often
complex writings accessible to scholars and students. The parallel
Italian text is also included for the first time in an English
translation of the Convivio. Readers of this work can gain a strong
understanding of the philosophical themes across Dante's work,
including the Divine Comedy, as well as the logic, politics and
science of his time.
Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a
series of self-commentaries on three of Dante's long poems. These
allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for
philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition. The prose
is written in Italian so that those who were not educated in Latin
could take part in what Dante called his 'banquet of knowledge'. In
this edition, eminent Dante translator-scholar Andrew Frisardi
offers the first fully annotated translation of the work into
English, with an extensive introduction, making Dante's often
complex writings accessible to scholars and students. The parallel
Italian text is also included for the first time in an English
translation of the Convivio. Readers of this work can gain a strong
understanding of the philosophical themes across Dante's work,
including the Divine Comedy, as well as the logic, politics and
science of his time.
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Vita Nova (Paperback)
Andrew Frisardi
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R882
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Discovery Miles 7 990
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Dante’s Vita Nova (circa 1292–1295) depicts the joys and
sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of Dante’s early love for
Beatrice—who would achieve later and even greater fame in
Commedia—starting with his first sighting of her and culminating
in his prevision of Beatrice among the beatified in heaven.
Award-winning translator and poet Andrew Frisardi channels the
vigor and nuance of Dante’s first masterpiece for a modern
audience. The “little book,” as Dante calls it, consists of
thirty-one lyric poems—mostly sonnets—embedded in a prose
narrative, which both recounts an apparently autobiographical set
of events also evoked in the poems and offers analysis of the
poems’ construction in the medieval critical tradition of divisio
textus, or division of the text. Dante selected poetry he had
written before age twenty-eight or so and wrote the prose to shape
it into a story. The poems anthologize Dante’s growth as a poet,
from the influence of his earliest mentors to the stylistic and
thematic breakthroughs of his poetic coming-of-age. The interplay
of poetry and prose in Vita Nova, along with the further
distinction in the latter between autobiography and critical
divisioni, presents a particular challenge for any translator.
Frisardi faithfully voices the complex meter and rhyme schemes of
the poetry while capturing the tone of each of the prose styles.
His introduction and in-depth annotations provide additional
context for the twenty-first-century reader.
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