Dante : the essential Commedia / Prue Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Prue, author, translator.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Poetry

Translations

Physical Description:

xxi, 522 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Essential Commedia

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2025]

Language Note:

Partially translated English text with original Italian.

Summary:

"Prue Shaw, a renowned Dante scholar, expertly guides the reader on an enthralling tour through all three realms of the afterlife. Extensive passages of the work's greatest poetry--about one third of the whole--are astutely excerpted and presented in English translation alongside the original Italian. A linking commentary summarizes the elided sections, distilling the epic into a series of vivid vignettes while preserving its narrative continuity and cosmic sweep. A notable feature of this book is its exceptional readability. The translations into modern idiomatic English avoid archaism, padding, and syntactic contortion. A thrilling but difficult text is made wholly accessible by a scholar whose expertise enables her to highlight and contextualize the essential aspects of the poem: the imaginative power of the drama; the poetic brilliance of the language; the intellectual excitement as we grapple with fundamental questions about the meaning and value of human lives. As Shaw deftly guides us through the afterlife, we discover that the issues Dante's poem engages with remain utterly modern: power, corruption, and the thirst for wealth; honesty, integrity, and courage. The human condition has not changed in seven hundred years. Shaw's timeless translation is a perfect point of entry for anyone interested in exploring this foundational text of Western literature, a supreme achievement of the human spirit"--Dust jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia. Selections. English & Italian

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1324096209

9781324096207

OCLC:

1490365823

Publisher Number:

CIPO000265482