The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Canticle 1: Hell
Jan 2010 · Scripsi
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"In this new translation of its first canticle, Hell, the precise meaning of the original is allowed to come across without recourse to literalness or loss of poetic feel. In addition, the novel use of tetrameters ensures the lively rhythms of the original are captured better than by using the more traditional blank verse. Similar novelty may be found in the redesign of forty-two of Gustave Doré's original engravings to convey a striking vision of a stark, bleak and desolate Hell; there are also two new maps of both Hell and Dante's universe. With nearly a hundred pages of notes to help the reader who is unfamiliar with Dante and his world, this is a translation that can be readily understood by anyone ..."--Page four of cover.
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