Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is
the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything
he needs to read and understand Dante’s great masterpiece. The
Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading
Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton’s prose translation,
facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is
smooth and literate. The companion volume, the Commentary, marshals
every point of information the reader may require: vocabulary;
grammar; identification of Dante’s characters; historical sources of
some of the incidents and, where pertinent, excerpts from those
sources in their original languages and in translation; profound clear
analysis of the Divine Comedy’s basic allegory. There is a complete
bibliography of every aspect of Dante studies. This first part of the
Divine Comedy which is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region
Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates
showing some of the historic sites mentioned by Dante in his poem.
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ISBN
9780691238296
Publisert
2021
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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