Bilingual; text in Italian and English. Tan cloth, red background with gold-color lettering on spine, xxiv, 307 pp., 42 pen and wash drawings by Barry Moser, unclipped illustrated jacket. Light shelf wear, previous owner's name on front paste-down endpaper, clean text, tight binding. Jacket is worn with edge tears and small chips.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Inferno: First Book of the Divine Comedy (California Dante)

Publisher

University of California Press, Berkeley

Publication Date

1980

Language

English

ISBN 10

0520027124

ISBN 13

9780520027121

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Barry Moser

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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Physical description : 307p : ill ; 29cm. Complete in 3 Volumes. Physical description : 307p : ill ; 29cm. Subjects : Classics of Western literature. 14th-century epic poem. Divine Comedy. Italian Poet. Poetry. Fiction. Christian doctrines. Christianity. Subjects : Classics of Western literature. 14th-century epic poem. Divine Comedy. Italian Poet. Poetry. Fiction. Christian doctrines. Christianity.

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"An exciting, vivid" Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."
--"Chicago magazine
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."--"The Christian Science Monitor
"Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."
--"Book Review Digest

"An exciting, vivid" Inferno" by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."
--"Chicago" magazine
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."--"The Christian Science Monitor"
"Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."
--"Book Review Digest"

"An exciting, vivid Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."
--Chicago magazine

"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.

"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.

"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."--The Christian Science Monitor

"Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."
--Book Review Digest

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