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The Divine Comedy (Everyman's Library Classics) (Hardcover)

by Dante Alighieri (Author), Peter Armour (Editor), Sandro Botticelli (Illustrator), Eugenio Montale (Introduction), Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)
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This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very handsome edition, 9 Mar 2005
Dante is a must. The Divine Comedy is fascinating, incisive and reads like a real adventure.

About this edition:
* Allen Mandelbaum's translation is simply wonderful.
* Top marks for accessibility: The book reads very easily and is very well annotated (some 250 pages of notes)
* This edition is highly practical (it contains all three parts), durable and aesthetically pleasing.
* Contains 42 of Boticelli's 15th century illustrations
Simply great value for money

If you want to get acquainted with this masterpiece then this is the edition to go for!

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Direct and Lively Translation, 13 Mar 2007
By Paul D "Paul" (Darwen, Lancashire) - See all my reviews
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Dante was an exile in his own time. In his great work, he descends to the underworld where he encounters his poetic hero Virgil who guides him through the circles of Hell, up Mount Purgatory, and to the gates of Paradise, where his role is taken by Dante's vision of the Ideal, Beatrice. In Paradise Dante meets the spirits of the blessed.

This is a magnificent work, considered by some the joint centre of the Western Canon along with Shakespeare. It is peerless among works of literature, offering a lifetime of deep reading. Mandelbaum is to be congratulated on producing a direct, lively, musical translation which leads the eye and the mind ever onward. The presentation is first-rate, pleasing to the eye and hard-wearing, and comes with many of Boticelli's illustrations. I have tried and failed with other translations, but Mandelbaum's is eminently readable.
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20 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, 7 Jan 2003
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Read it for its own merits - which are numerous.
But also read it to understand the myriad of references that you will have stumbled across uncomprehendingly in your reading to date.
It is a magnificent feat of imagination, of scholarship and of faith and one of the few books that can genuinely be said to stand unrivalled.
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Reading Dante is never going to be easy. The book is 500 years old, written in a world very different from ours and for a very specific purpose and audience. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars A plea for Dante's version
Any English version that doesn't bother to print the parallel Italian text is to my mind a waste of time (and money). Read more
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Basically,this book rules.I did it for an essay in English and I just got totally absorbed,I'm only 17 and haven't really read any other book like this 'cos I don't like them,but... Read more
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