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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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Hardcover: 798 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library; New edition edition (25 May 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1857151836
ISBN-13: 978-1857151831
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 4.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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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

By	steven134 "steven134" - See all my reviews

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Direct and Lively Translation, 13 Mar 2007

By	Paul D "Paul" (Darwen, Lancashire) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, 7 Jan 2003

By	Lovborg (London) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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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