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- Lectura Dantis: Inferno: A Canto-by-Canto Commentary
- Book
- 1999
- Published by: University of California Press
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The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before."
This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.
This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.
Table of Contents
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- Canto I: The Hard Begin
- pp. 9-24
- Canto II: Dante's Authority
- pp. 25-35
- Canto III: The Gate of Hell
- pp. 36-49
- Canto IV: A Melancholy Elysium
- pp. 50-62
- Canto V: The Fierce Dove
- pp. 63-83
- Canto VII: The Weal of Fortune
- pp. 101-110
- Canto X: Farinata and Cavalcante
- pp. 136-149
- Canto XI: Malice and Mad Bestiality
- pp. 150-164
- Canto XIII: The Violent against Themselves
- pp. 178-184
- Canto XIV: Capaneus and the Old Man of Crete
- pp. 185-196
- Canto XV: The Canto of Brunetto Latini
- pp. 197-212
- Canto XVI: From Other Sodomites to Fraud
- pp. 213-224
- Canto XVIII: Introduction to Malebolge
- pp. 238-261
- Canto XIX: Simoniacs
- pp. 262-274
- Canto XX: True and False See-ers
- pp. 275-286
- Canto XXI: Controversial Comedy
- pp. 287-296
- Canto XXII: Poets as Scoundrels
- pp. 297-305
- Canto XXIII: The Painted People
- pp. 306-315
- Canto XXIV: Thieves and Metamorphoses
- pp. 316-327
- Canto XXV: The Perverse Image
- pp. 328-347
- Canto XXVIII: Scandal and Schism
- pp. 368-377
- Canto XXIX: Such Outlandish Wounds
- pp. 378-391
- Canto XXX: Dante among the Falsifiers
- pp. 392-405
- Canto XXXI: The Giants: Majesty and Terror
- pp. 406-412
- Canto XXXIII: Count Ugolino and Others
- pp. 424-431
- Canto XXXIV: Lucifer
- pp. 432-439
- Contributors
- pp. 449-452
- Production Notes
- pp. 462-477
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520920538
Related ISBN(s)
9780520212497
MARC Record
OCLC
868030559
Pages
490
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No