| Description |
xxxiii, 634 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-634) and indexes. |
| Summary |
Dante's immortal poem enters English in the clearest, the most accurate, the most readable translation in decades, accompanied by a commentary of unsurpassed scholarship. This new verse translation (with facing-page Italian text) is by internationally famed scholar and master teacher Hollander and his wife, poet Jean Hollander. |
| Contents |
Circle 0: The neutrals -- Circle 1: Limbo (virtuous heathens and unbaptized babies) -- Circle 2: Lust -- Circle 3: Guttony -- Circle 4: Avarice and prodigality -- Circle 5 Anger and sullennes -- Gate of Dis (lower hell) -- Circle 6: Heresy -- Circle 7: Violence -- Phlegethon (river of blood) -- Descent to Malebolge -- Circle 8: The ten Melebolge -- Circle 9: The frozen floor of hell -- Cocytus (river of ice). |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno -- Translations into English.
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Hell -- Poetry.
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Italian language materials.
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Italiaans.
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Engels.
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| Genre/Form |
Young adult nonfiction.
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| Added Author |
Hollander, Robert, 1933-
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Hollander, Jean, 1928-
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| Added Title |
Inferno. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno. English. Inferno. New York : Doubleday, ©2000 (OCoLC)606485162 |
| ISBN |
0385496974 |
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9780385496971 |
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