内容简介
TheDivineComedy,translatedbyAllenMandelbaum,beginsinashadowedforestonGoodFridayintheyear1300.Itproceedsonajourneythat,initsintenserecreationofthedepthsandtheheightsofhumanexperience,hasbecomethekeywithwhichWesterncivilizationhassoughttounlockthemysteryofitsownidentity.Mandelbaum’sastonishinglyDanteantranslation,whichcapturessomuchofthelifeoftheoriginal,renderswholeforusthemasterpieceofthatgeniuswhomourgreatestpoetshaverecognizedasacentralmodelforallpoets.ThisEveryman’sedition–containinginonevolumeallthreecantos,Inferno,Purgatorio,andParadiso–includesanintroductionbyNobelPrize—winningpoetEugenioMontale,achronology,notes,andabibliography.Alsoincludedareforty-twodrawingsselectedfromBotticelli'smarvelouslate-fifteenth-centuryseriesofillustrations.(BookJacketStatus:Jacketed)
作者简介
DanteAlighieri,borninFlorence,Italy,c.1265,isconsideredoneoftheworld'sgreatestpoets.HisuseoftheFlorentinedialectestablisheditasthebasisformodernItalian.Hislatemedievalepic,TheDivineComedy,wasaboveallinspired,aswasallhispoetry,byhisunrequitedloveforBeatrice,awomanhemayhaveseenonlyfromafar.Hediedin1321,havingcompletedhisgreatwork,yetanexilefromhisnativecity.FromtheTradePaperbackedition.,,,