Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Fiction, Classics, Literary: Canticle I of the Divine Comedy - Hardcover

Alighieri, Dante

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606648829 ISBN 13: 9781606648827

Publisher: Aegypan, 2008

Synopsis

Immensely popular, and commanding a larger audience than any other poet in America, Longfellow produced a body of work which skillfully rendered European culture into terms his New World readers readily appreciated -- with his translation of The Inferno one of his most important offerings.

About this title

Review:

" Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan." --William Dean Howells, "The Nation"

About the Author:

Durante degli Alighieri (1265 - 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences. In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended use of the vernacular in literature. He himself would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the aforementioned Divine Comedy; this choice, although highly unorthodox, set a hugely important precedent that later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. As a result, Dante played an instrumental role in establishing the national language of Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1606648829
• ISBN 13: 9781606648827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208