Purgatorio
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- Paperback
848 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2004
Summary
Following the Hollanders’ widely acclaimed English rendering of Inferno, PURGATORIO, the second canticle in Dante’s immortal DIVINE COMEDY, enters English in the best—the clearest, most accurate, most readable—translation in decades, with unsurpassed scholarship in its introduction and with extensive notes.
PURGATORIO relates in thirty-three cantos Dante’s progress, still with Virgil as his guide, up the mountain of Purgatory, where souls expiate th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385497008 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385497008 |
| Author: | Dante, Jean Hollander, Robert Hollander |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 848 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 601g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 133mm x 35mm |
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Critics Review
”The Hollanders have rendered both the supple lyricism and the rich imagery of the Purgatorio with an admirably informed expertise. … A model for all translators.” The Literary Review
“The Hollanders’ translation … seems the most accessible and the closest to the Italian. … The provision of informative notes … is impeccable … with ample commentary easily and unobturisvely available at the end of each canto.” –Tim Parks, The New Yorker
“The Hollanders’ translation is probably the most finely accomplished and may well prove the most enduring.” –R.W. B. Lewis, Los Angeles Times
About The Author
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Jean Hollander is a poet, teacher, and director of the Writers’ Conference at the College of New Jersey. Robert Hollander, her husband, has been teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy to Princeton students for forty years, and is the author of a dozen books and more than seventy articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other Italian authors. He has received many awards, including the gold medal of the city of Florence, in recognition of his work on Dante. They are at work on their translation of Paradiso, the conclusion of the Divine Comedy.
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