The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri : a verse translation / with introductions & commentary by Allen Mandelbaum ; drawings by Barry Moser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Moser, Barry.

Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926-2011.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Divina commedia. English & Italian

Language:

English

Italian

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

The California Dante.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, c1980-c1982.

Summary:

Paradiso is the third and final part of the work that Dante describes as having made him 'lean through these long years': and in this final part, that long leanness, long labor, and long hunger are at last appeased. Dante's Paradiso is the poem of love and light--what Osip Mandelstam called a 'kinetic ballet, ' with 'every possible kind of luminous figure and dance'--and of optics, angelology, polemics, homiletics, prophecies, perplexities, resolutions, and recognition of the limits of human understanding.

Contents:

[1] Inferno

[2] Purgatorio

[3] Paradiso.

Notes:

Half title: The California Dante

Spine titles: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso.

English and Italian on facing pages.

The Italian text with an English verse translation, introduction, and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum.

"The paper is Mohawk Superfine, manufactured by the Mohawk Paper Mills, Cohoes, New York."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has Pt. 1 & 2 only.

ISBN:

0520027124

9780520027121

0520045165

9780520045163

0520045173

9780520045170

OCLC:

70987322