|
Showing 1 - 25 of
1994 matches in All Departments
|
Inferno (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri
|
R289
R238
Discovery Miles 2 380
Save R51 (18%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” read the
now-famous words above the gate through which Dante, the
protagonist of Inferno, crosses the threshold. But that forbidding
inscription applies only to those without faith; and though Dante's
journey through the nine circles of Hell begins
with terror and confusion, it ends with an
understanding of the divine plan and the realization of divine
love. Along the way, Dante meets an array of sinners from Christian
and classical history and legend--a fascinating cast of characters
that has intrigued and instructed readers since Inferno was
first published in 1317.
|
The Divine Comedy (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by H.F. Cary; Introduction by H.F. Cary; Series edited by Tom Griffith
1
|
R179
R136
Discovery Miles 1 360
Save R43 (24%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and
innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy
(the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his
native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both
morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back
the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the
Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing
work. The Comedy tells of the journey of a character who is at one
and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three
realms of the Christian afterlife: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. He
presents a vision of the afterlife which is strikingly original in
its conception, with a complex architecture and a coherent
structure. On this journey Dante's protagonist - and his reader -
meet characters who are variously noble, grotesque, beguiling,
fearful, ridiculous, admirable, horrific and tender, and through
them he is shown the consequences of sin, repentance and virtue, as
he learns to avoid Hell and, through cleansing in Purgatory, to
taste the joys of Heaven.
|
Inferno (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri
2
|
R95
R76
Discovery Miles 760
Save R19 (20%)
|
Ships in 5 - 10 working days
|
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our
times of joy in wretchedness.' Considered one of the greatest
medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time,
Dante's Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he
wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles
across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him
back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must pass
through Hell, encountering all manner of shocking horrors, sins and
evil torments along the way, evoking questions about God's justice,
human behaviour and Christianity.
|
Inferno (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri
|
R218
R191
Discovery Miles 1 910
Save R27 (12%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
|
Inferno (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by Michael Palma
|
R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
|
Out of stock
|
Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno reproduces in
contemporary English Dante's intricate triple-rhyming terza rima
form, defying the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who
long argued that it simply cannot be done. This spectacular feat of
poetic artistry- "accurate ... admirably clear, and readable"
(Richard Wilbur)-"in capturing the sense, sound, and spirit of the
original ... comes close to perfection" (X.J. Kennedy).
|
The Inferno (Hardcover)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
|
R281
R255
Discovery Miles 2 550
Save R26 (9%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
|
The Inferno (Paperback, New edition)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by H.F. Cary; Introduction by Claire Honess; Series edited by Tom Griffith
|
R159
R114
Discovery Miles 1 140
Save R45 (28%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and
innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy
(the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from
his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both
morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back
the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the
Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing
work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who
is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In the
Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a
graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters
an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous
and horrific characters.
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and
whole!' A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and
experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in
the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the
first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste
of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around
the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence,
heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
|
La Vita Nuova (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by David R. Slavitt; Introduction by Seth Lerer
|
R694
Discovery Miles 6 940
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
La Vita Nuova (1292-94) has many aspects. Dante's libello, or
"little book," is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence
of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from
his first sight of her (when he was nine and she eight), through
unrequited love and chance encounters, to his profound grief
sixteen years later at her sudden and unexpected death. Linked with
Dante's verse are commentaries on the individual poems-their form
and meaning-as well as the events and feelings from which they
originate. Through these commentaries the poet comes to see
romantic love as the first step in a spiritual journey that leads
to salvation and the capacity for divine love. He aims to reside
with Beatrice among the stars. David Slavitt gives us a readable
and appealing translation of one of the early, defining
masterpieces of European literature, animating its verse and prose
with a fluid, lively, and engaging idiom and rhythm. His
translation makes this first major book of Dante's stand out as a
powerful work of art in its own regard, independent of its "junior"
status to La Commedia. In an Introduction, Seth Lerer considers
Dante as a poet of civic life. "Beatrice," he reminds us, "lives as
much on city streets and open congregations as she does in bedroom
fantasies and dreams."
Dante's masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless
art of Gustave Dore. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice,
journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the
soul through the Afterlife, with the subtle engraving of Dore's
illustrations perfectly complementing the movement from darkness
through to light.
|
Paradiso (Hardcover)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by Stanley Lombardo; Introduction by Alison Cornish; Notes by Alison Cornish
|
R1,650
R1,490
Discovery Miles 14 900
Save R160 (10%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio
(Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet
dynamic verse translation, innovative verse paragraphing for
reader-friendliness, and a facing-page Italian text. It also offers
an extraordinarily helpful set of notes and headnotes as well as
Introduction-all designed for first-time readers of the canticle-by
Alison Cornish.
In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world
literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original
translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this
complete edition brings all three parts of Dante's epic journey
through Hell and Purgatory and on to Paradise together in a single
volume for the first time.
This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell. A newly edited version of the Italian text can be found on facing pages, and this edition includes fully comprehensive notes as well as sixteen essays on special subjects.
|
Inferno (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by Mary Jo Bang; Illustrated by Henrik Drescher
|
R613
R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
Save R84 (14%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante's "Inferno" as
it has never been rendered Stopped mid-motion in the middle
Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-
Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost.
--from Canto I Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the
"Inferno" into English at a moment when popular culture is so
prevalent that it has even taken Dante, author of the fourteenth
century epic poem, "The Divine Comedy," and turned him into an
action-adventure video game hero. Dante, a master of innovation,
wrote his poem in the vernacular, rather than in literary Latin.
Bang has similarly created an idiomatically rich contemporary
version that is accessible, musical, and audacious. She's matched
Dante's own liberal use of allusion and literary borrowing by
incorporating literary and cultural references familiar to
contemporary readers: Shakespeare and Dickinson, Freud and South
Park, Kierkegaard and Stephen Colbert. The Inferno--the allegorical
story of a spiritual quest that begins in a dark forest, traverses
Hell's nine circles, and ends at the hopeful edge of purgatory--was
also an indictment of religious hypocrisy and political corruption.
In its time, the poem was stunningly new. Bang's version is true to
the original: lyrical, politically astute, occasionally
self-mocking, and deeply moving. With haunting illustrations by
Henrik Drescher, this is the most readable Inferno available in
English, a truly remarkable achievement.
Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain
of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of
redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls
of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western
literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the
highest poetic achievement of all time. This 700th Anniversary
Edition of The Divine Comedy is presented in a verse translation by
acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together
with extensive notes, illustrations by Gustave Dore and a critical
apparatus focusing on the author's life and works.
|
The Divine Comedy (Hardcover)
Dante Alighieri; Illustrated by Gustave Dore
|
R666
R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
Save R202 (30%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost
thou so fall?" Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--the three fates
of the deceased become the three pillars of an epic poem. The
Divine Comedy, written by Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the
fourteenth century, is considered the foremost work in Italian
literature. The journey begins with Dante's descent into the depths
of Hell where he witnesses those eternally separated from God. Then
he climbs the mountain of Purgatory where Christian souls undergo
final purification, before finally touring the celestial circles of
Heaven where he is filled with the image of God. An allegorical
work, the comedy is representative of the soul's journey towards
God. Influential for seven centuries, this classic is a must have
for lovers of great literature, and the luxurious leather-bound
edition from Canterbury Classics will make a stunning addition to
any library.
Richard Wilbur praises Palma's translation as "accurate as to
sense, fully rhymed, and easy, as a rule, in its movement through
the tercets. Readers will find it admirably clear and readable."
The text is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Also
included in this edition are an illuminating introduction by
Giuseppe Mazzotta, a Translator's Note, The Plan of Dante's Hell,
and six maps and illustrations. "Criticism" provides twelve
interpretations by, among others, John Freccero, Robert M. Durling,
Alison Cornish, Teodolinda Barolini, Giuseppe Mazzotta, and Robert
Hollander. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also
included.
An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish
to read this great medieval classic with true understanding,
Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair
translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing
after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine
literary criticism.
Cas Vos is ‘n bekende op die gebied van digkuns. Sy vorige werke sluit in: Die goddelike komedie (2017) en Il Paradiso (2018).
In albei het hy homself bewys as meestervertaler van die węreld se meesterstukke. Sy nuutste bundel, Inferno, is die eerste rymende versvertaling van die meester Dante Alighieri in Afrikaans.
Hierdie bundel is ‘n prestasie wat in die voorsienbare toekoms onherhaalbaar is en lank ‘n standaardwerk sal wees.
'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian 'One of
the most vital retellings of the poem to date' Spectator Dante, now
guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey
through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the
spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to
understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a
human soul. The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a
fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well
as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.
Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine
Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for
students as well as the general reader coming to this great
masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time The Divine
Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide;
his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love,
Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions
of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly
nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. This volume
includes a new introduction, notes, maps and diagrams 'The perfect
balance of tightness and colloquialism... likely to be the best
modern version of Dante' - Bernard O'Donoghue 'The most moving
lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges 'This version is
the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body
of the translation - a deeply-informed version of Dante that is
also a pleasure to read' - Professor David Wallace, University of
Pennsylvania Individual editions of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation
- Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - are also available in Penguin
Classics, and include Dante's Italian printed alongside the English
text.
'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every
time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time - the
greater part of a lifetime - preparing my instruments.' The Divine
Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's
vivid translation - his life's work and decades in the making -
presents Dante's entire epic poem in a single song. While many
poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of
The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short. Victorian
verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of
reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same
time betraying the strain on the translator's powers of invention.
For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but
the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of
Heaven were no less so. In this incantatory translation, James -
defying the convention by writing in quatrains - tackles these
problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible
translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified,
and dramatic work.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|