The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Trans.Laurence Binyon; La Vita Nuova, Trans. D.G.Rossetti (Viking Portable Library S.) - Softcover

Alighieri, Dante

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140231145 ISBN 13: 9780140231144

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

As a philosopher, Dante wedded classical methods of enquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared to draw maps of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunciation. As all these things Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) paved the way for modern literature. This volume aims to capture the scope of Dante's genius. It contains complete verse translations of his two masterworks, "The Divine Comedy" and "La Vita Nuova".

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About the Author:

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova. He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140231145
• ISBN 13: 9780140231144
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704