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Dante Alighieri
Higgins, David H.
ISBN: 9780199535644
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance…
Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the 'fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey - the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide leaves him to encounter Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise. Dante conceived the poem as the new epic of Christendom, and he creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. Charles Sisson's blank verse translation is remarkable for its lucidity and vigour, and the Introduction, diagrams, maps, and notes by David Higgins provide the reader with invaluable guidance.
| ISBN | 0199535647 | | Pages | 752 | | ISBN13 | 9780199535644
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 540 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Oxford World's Classics | | Publication date | 17 Apr 2008 | | Previous ISBN | 9780192835024 | | Translator | C. H. Sisson | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Writer of introduction | Higgins, David H. | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | PQ4315 | | Spine width (mm) | 48 | | DEWEY | 851.1 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Alternative ISBN | 9781605147185 |
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