| #22008 in Books | Dante Alighieri/ Mandelbaum, Allen (INT) | 1982-01-01 | 1982-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.85 x.94 x4.17l,.46 | Binding: Mass Market Paperback | 432 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Highly Readable Classic|By Dr. Limfoma Mbweebwee|If this book had been written last week, I would give it three stars. Because it's seven hundred years old, and it's one of the major literary works of the medieval period, you have to bump it up a couple of stars. Back in Dante's day, capable writers were few and far between, so anyone who distinguished himself automatically bec||"An exciting, vivid Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."|--Chicago magazine||"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.||"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Inferno (Bantam Classics) | Dante Alighieri. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
