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"[Durling's] rendering of Dante's diction is literal and accurate, conveying the tone and feel while remaining accessible."--Library Journal
"This new edition of Inferno is distinctly user-friendly....Serious students--in or out of the classroom--who...examine the original poem alongside a readable and reliable prose translation will find this edition excellently suited to their needs."--The Christian Science Monitor
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This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and sardonic humour, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. A newly edited version of the Italian text can be on facing pages, and this edition includes fully comprehensive notes as well as sixteen essays on special subjects.
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In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
I bought this edition of Dante's Inferno because I'm a new reader and wanted to read it in Italian, in order not to lose any detail regarding rhyme and rhythm, and in English in order not to lose the meaning (I haven't studied Italian ever). In addition, I wanted additional notes to get as much profit as possible of this first reading. My choice couldn't have been better. Notes give the reader much interesting information and comment on interesting insights and different perspectives when reading the text, but are not excessively scholarly, which is the best you can expect as a new reader. Of course, some background on the Greek and Roman classics as well as on the Bible and Catholic tradition is required, but the notes to the text could not be better, in my opinion.
One thing missing, perhaps, is the illustrations by Gustave Doré, which are unique and valuable for their own sake but I think they also help the first reader and would have made of this edition of Dante's Inferno the best ever.
One thing missing, perhaps, is the illustrations by Gustave Doré, which are unique and valuable for their own sake but I think they also help the first reader and would have made of this edition of Dante's Inferno the best ever.
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Dante's Inferno: Reprint Series
30 Jan 2008
Format:Paperback
I found this edition of Dante's most famous book of the Divine Comedy to be excellent in all respects. The translation seemed excedingly accurate -- as an Italian prof. I was working almost exclusively from the original -- in a modern, clean style. Here the attempt is not to replicate the hendecasyllabic verse or the "third rhyming" ("terza rima").
More successful still are the notes that follow each canto, replete with explications of historical and theological references or simply of difficult lines. Not to be discounted too is the introduction which admits to not being exhaustive but is powerfully pithy and a nice springboard from which to attack the text.
Dr. Joseph A. DiLuzio
More successful still are the notes that follow each canto, replete with explications of historical and theological references or simply of difficult lines. Not to be discounted too is the introduction which admits to not being exhaustive but is powerfully pithy and a nice springboard from which to attack the text.
Dr. Joseph A. DiLuzio
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
the inferno reigns
20 April 2000
Format:Paperback
This book was my constant companion through humanities studies. The notes are clear and concise without being abstract, and having the Italian to English page by page gave the flavor of the original verses while rendering the translation nearly as graceful. For anyone wanting to take a trip to hell and back with Dante, this version provides plenty of contemporary signposts along the way.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Stunning clarity of meaning...
10 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
This edition of the Inferno is by far the best English translation available for the serious student of Dante. No absurd attempt to emulate the poetic style is made here, it's strictly prose. Moreover, it's clear, easy to read prose. Remember, it was written in the vernacular, and therefore should be read in the simplest vernacular available to the English speaking reader.
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