Description
Description
Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan. One of the few literary works that has enjoyed a fame both immediate and enduring, The Inferno remains powerful after seven centuries. It confronts the most universal values--good and evil, free will and predestination--while remaining intensely personal and ferociously political, for it was born out of the anguish of a man who saw human life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his times. Translated by John Ciardi
With an Introduction by Archibald T. MacAllister
and an Afterword by Edward M. Cifelli
With an Introduction by Archibald T. MacAllister
and an Afterword by Edward M. Cifelli
About the Author
About the Author
ROBERT HOLLANDER taught Dante's Divine Comedy to Princeton students for forty-two years, and is the author of a dozen books and more than seventy articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other Italian authors. He is Professor in European Literature Emeritus at Princeton and the founding director of both the Dartmouth Dante Project and the Princeton Dante Project. He has received many awards, including the gold medal of the city of Florence and the gold florin of the Dante Society of America, in recognition of his work on Dante. JEAN HOLLANDER has taught literature and writing at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the College of New Jersey, where she was director of the Writers' Conference for twenty-three years.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"The most accessible and the closest to the Italian ... with ample commentary easily and unobtrusively available at the end of each Canto." --Tim Parks, The New Yorker
"The Hollanders ... act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us through the Italian text that is printed on the facing page." --The Economist "Probably the most finely accomplished and may well prove the most enduring.... The annotation ... is crowded with useful insights and bits of information and keeps us abreast of scholarly opinion across the ages." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The Hollanders ... act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us through the Italian text that is printed on the facing page." --The Economist "Probably the most finely accomplished and may well prove the most enduring.... The annotation ... is crowded with useful insights and bits of information and keeps us abreast of scholarly opinion across the ages." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Pub date:
2002-01-08
Length:
736 pages
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