Lectura Dantis : Inferno / edited by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lebowitz, Brian E.

Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926-2011.

Oldcorn, Anthony.

Ross, Charles Stanley.

Series:

California lectura Dantis ; 1.

California lectura Dantis ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Italian--To 1500.

Authors, Italian.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno.

Dante Alighieri.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Inferno

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before. "This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Introduction. Dante in His Age

Canto I. The Hard Begin

Canto II. Dante's Authority

CANTO III. The Gate of Hell

CANTO IV. A Melancholy Elysium

CANTO V. The Fierce Dove

CANTO VI. Florence, Ciacco, and the Gluttons

CANTO VII. The Weal of Fortune

CANTO VIII. Fifth Circle: Wrathful and Sullen

CANTO IX. The Harrowing of Dante from Upper Hell

CANTO X. Farinata and Cavalcante

CANTO XI. Malice and Mad Bestiality

CANTO XII. The Violent against Their Neighbors

CANTO XIII. The Violent against Themselves

CANTO XIV. Capaneus and the Old Man of Crete

CANTO XV. The Canto of Brunetto Latini

CANTO XVI. From Other Sodomites to Fraud

CANTO XVII. Geryon's Downward Flight; the Usurers

CANTO XVIII. Introduction to Malebolge

CANTO XIX. Simoniacs

CANTO XX. True and False See-ers

CANTO XXI. Controversial Comedy

CANTO XXII. Poets as Scoundrels

CANTO XXIII. The Painted People

CANTO XXIV. Thieves and Metamorphoses

CANTO XXV. The Perverse Image

CANTO XXVI. Ulysses: Persuasion versus Prophecy

CANTO XXVII. False Counselors: Guido da Montefeltro

CANTO XXVIII. Scandal and Schism

CANTO XXIX. Such Outlandish Wounds

CANTO XXX. Dante among the Falsifiers

CANTO XXXI. The Giants: Majesty and Terror

CANTO XXXII. Amphion and the Poetics of Retaliation

CANTO XXXIII. Count Ugolini and Others

CANTO XXXIV. Lucifer

Bibliographical Note and Suggestions for Further Reading

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613520272

9781280085765

1280085762

9780520920538

0520920538

OCLC:

780537781