Inferno: A New Verse Translation
"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."Washington TimesIn this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures...
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"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."Washington TimesIn this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damneddark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terrordepicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture."If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."San Diego Union-Tribune
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679757085 (0679757082)
Publish date: October 5th 1999
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Medieval,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Horror,
Italian Literature
Series: The Divine Comedy -3 (#1)
It's Book Circle day, and also the 24th day of the Doubleday UK meme which invites one to consider which book is most reminiscent of that dread and drear individual, The English Teacher. http://tinyurl.com/la754n4 It's poetry. The ***ONLY*** reason I read poetry is that it's somehow assigned rea...
The Inferno is one of those books that everyone talks about, but very few people seem to have actually read. It’s a classic of the highest order, and after having read it myself, I have to say I agree with that verdict. It is genuinely magnificently written, and I have both Dante and John Ciardi to ...
Dante's lively, conical hell is vivacious, and his story is presented as history, allowing its spiritual and philosophical significance to emerge unforced. It offers a nuanced view of human action, thought, character and judgement, as well as the role of divine justice.All this might seem unappealin...
Eerste zin: "Op het midden van den weg onzes levens, hervond ik mij in een donker woud, omdat de Rechte Weg verloren was." P. 99: "Er is een plaats in de Hel, genaamd de Buidelen des kwaads, geheel van steen van de kleur van ijzerroest eveneens als de cirkel, die haar van rondom omgeeft." Laatste ...