02335cam a2200385 i 4500 497966573 TxAuBib 20170330120000.0 950809s1995||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95-75206 9780679433132 0679433139 9780553213393 0553213393 (OCoLC)32944246 TxAuBib rda Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The divine comedy / translated by Allen Mandelbaum ; with an introduction by Eugenio Montale ; and notes by Peter Armour. Knopf edition. New York : Knopf, 1995. 798 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Inferno -- Purgatorio -- Paradiso. 'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets. This Everyman's edition -- containing in one volume all three cantos, 'Inferno, ' 'Purgatorio, ' and 'Paradiso' -- includes an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth century series of illustrations." ***"An epic poem in which the poet describes his spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise -- guided first by the poet Virgil and then by his beloved Beatrice -- which results in a purification of his religious faith.". 20170330. Translated from the Italian. Latin literature. Classical literature. Italian poetry. Poetry. Mandelbaum, Allen, translator.