Paradiso (The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume III)
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the...
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This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553212044 (0553212044)
Publish date: August 3rd 2004
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages no: 433
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Christianity,
Poetry,
Italian Literature
Series: The Divine Comedy -3 (#3)
I listened to this book on CD instead of actually reading it. The version that I had had an explination at the beginning of each verse to help you understand and then read the verse. In this book, you travel with Dante as he assins to Heaven through the skies. I really did not liked this book. Ther...
The "Paradiso" is the climax of Dante's great "Commedia". This is what we've been waiting for since we opened to page one of "Inferno". And what do we find here? Many, it would seem, find disappointment and boredom. After the horror and close calls in "Inferno" and the gruesome purgations and la...
For the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament, The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh versus The Divine ComedyMy propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to s...
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