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Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation Dante Alighieri

Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation By Dante Alighieri

Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri


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Verse translation by prize-winning translator with facing Italian text. Part of Alma Classics' collection of Dante's complete Italian works, this edition is fully annotated.

Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation Summary

Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri

In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in its complexity. In Dante's imagining, Paradise is formed out of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, beginning with the Moon and ending with the Empyrean. Dante must traverse these ethereal regions guided by his beloved Beatrice, as a means of attaining wisdom, revelation and beatitude. Containing some of Dante's finest poetry, Dante's Paradise is an enduring vision of grace and a powerful allegory for the struggle for redemption. This dual-text edition completes J.G. Nichols's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy.

Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation Reviews

This new translation by J.G. Nichols, clearly grounded in a secure knowledge of and familiarity with Dante and in English verse which is rarely less than competently handled, is one that deserves to be taken seriously and will reward any reader who makes his first encounter with Dante through it. It is an intelligent and sophisticated piece of work. * Acumen Literary Journal * Dante is my spiritual food. -- James Joyce Bravo for this new version of Dante... Bravo, Professor Nichols! * The Church Times * All life is written in Dante's burning pages, and Nichols has done him proud. -- Ian Thomson * The Observer * For sheer liveliness, combined with accuracy and closeness to the text, it will be hard to rival. -- A.N. Wilson

About Dante Alighieri

Born in Florence, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is considered to be the father of Italian poetry and one of the greatest influences in world literature. His masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is the zenith of medieval knowledge and a paragon of poetic imagination. Its first part, the Inferno, remains one of the most popular books of all time.

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NGR9781847496478
9781847496478
1847496474
Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri
New
Paperback
Alma Books Ltd
2017-03-23
384
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