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2) The inferno
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Arguably the greatest of poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically...
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"Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang's new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In Purgatorio, still guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante emerges from the horrors of Hell to begin the climb up Mount Purgatory, a seven-terrace mountain with each level devoted to those atoning for one of the seven deadly sins. At the summit, we find the Terrestrial...
7) The paradiso
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The final canticle of Dante's "The Divine Comedy" shares the ultimate goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, Dante's vision of universal harmony and eternal salvation is an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.
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Dante Alighieri—Die göttliche Komödie
In seinem Klassiker der Weltliteratur lässt Dante zuerst den römischen Dichter Vergil durch Hölle und Fegefeuer führen und zuletzt seine Jugendfreundin Beatrice durch das Paradies. Mit dieser Reise möchte der Autor auf tieferer Ebene den symbolischen Weg zu Gott beschreiben, wobei dem Leser dabei die Seelen unzähliger Verstorbener begegnen, unter anderem lässt Dante Horaz, Barbarossa und Ovid sprechen....
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