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Dante Alighieri
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fall in love with love in this gorgeous collection of poems from Italian master Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy. Although collections of lyric poems singing the praises of love are as old as the written word, La Vita Nuova is remarkably innovative. Combining works in verse and prose in a linked series of pieces exploring the complexities of courtly love, this enchanting anthology is a must-read for poetry fans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, this title depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins.
12) Dante's Rime
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dante's juvenilia as well as his more mature work prior to the Divine Comedy ... omitting only those poems Dante incorporated into the Vita nuova" --jacket
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"'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...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 70
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Contains Emerson's published poems, plus a selection of his unpublished poems from journals and notebooks, and some of his translations of poetry from other languages, notably Dante's Vita nuova.
20) L'inferno
Publisher
Snapper Music
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The first Italian feature film ever made, L'Inferno was also the first international blockbuster, based loosely on Dante's journey through hell as influenced by the illustrative style of Gustave Doré.