The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Trans.Laurence Binyon; La Vita Nuova, Trans. D G Rossetti; Excerpts from the Rhymes And the Latin Prose Works (Viking portable library)

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  1981

  $11.25

  The scope and fire of Dante's genius in a single volume

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  1995

  $7.06

  As a philosopher, Dante wedded classical methods of enquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared to draw maps of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunciation. As all these things Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) paved the way for modern literature. This volume aims to capture the scope of Dante's genius. It contains complete verse translations of his two masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova .