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The Inferno
Contributor(s): Alighieri, Dante (Author), Ciardi, John (Translator), MacAllister, Archibald T. (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 0451531396     ISBN-13: 9780451531391
Publisher: Signet Book
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2009
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Annotation: "So full was I of slumber at the moment
in which I had abandoned the true way . . .

"O Muses, O high genius, now assist me!
O memory, that didst write down what I saw,
. . . thy nobility shall be manifest!"

Although chiefly remembered for such works as "The Psalm of Life," "The Children's Hour" and "Hiawatha," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) spent many years as professor of modern languages at Bowdoin, and later at Harvard. In 1843, after several trips abroad, he began work on his translation of Dante.

Immensely popular, and commanding a larger audience than any other poet in America, Longfellow produced a body of work which skillfully rendered European culture into terms his New World readers readily appreciated -- with his translation of "The Inferno" one of his most important offerings.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical
- Poetry | European - Italian
- Poetry | Medieval
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Lexile Measure: 1120
Series: Signet Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.2" W x 6.7" L (0.35 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Italy
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher 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

 
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