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    • I actually have all three volumes separated, so I've only read "The Inferno" thus far, but loved Ciardi's poetic translation. It's beautiful, well-explicated and gives a reader a sense of why this poem has endured for so long and how it is truly "Divine."

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  • guaddess said on May 13, 2007 about the Paperback edition

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Book Description

The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Allen Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.

This Everyman’s edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

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Hardcover 960 Pages
Edition: One-volume
ISBN-10: 0679433139
ISBN-13: 9780679433132
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Pub date: Aug 01, 1995
Dimensions: 21 cm x 13 cm x 5 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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