Inferno (eBook)

A New Verse Translation

Dante Alighieri (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
320 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-748-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This enthralling new translation of Dantes Inferno immediately joins ranks with the very best (Richard Lansing).One of the worlds transcendent literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dantes journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil, when in midlife he strays from his path in a dark wood. In this vivid verse translation into contemporary English, Peter Thornton makes the classic work fresh again for a new generation of readers. Recognizing that the Inferno was, for Dante and his peers, not simply an allegory but the most realistic work of fiction to date, he points out that hell was a lot like Italy of Dante's time. Thornton's translation captures the individuals represented, landscapes, and psychological immediacy of the dialogues as well as Dante's poetic effects.The product of decades of passionate dedication and research, his translation has been hailed by the leading Dante scholars on both sides of the Atlantic as exceptional in its accuracy, spontaneity, and vividness. Those qualities and its detailed notes explaining Dante's world and references make it both accessible for individual readers and perfect for class adoption.

Autor

Peter Thornton attended a Jesuit prep school in Manhattan, where the curriculum was based on Latin and Greek. After graduating from Boston College, he earned his PhD from Stanford University. He taught college English for several years before becoming a lawyer. The intellectual rigor of the law did not satisfy his hunger for poetry and he has spent decades translating the works of Dante and Petrarch into English verse. He currently resides in Evanston, Illinois.Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, became one of the leading lyric poets in Italy as a young man. He was exiled for political reasons, and in the last fifteen years of his life composed The Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the most-read part today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2017
• Übersetzer: Peter Thornton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Achilles • Aeneid • Allegory • America • ancient philosophers • Aristotle • Beatrice • Boardwalk • books on achilles • books on ancient philosophers • books on beatrice • books on ciardi • books on common speeches • books on dantes infernos • books on dark woods books on rhyme schemes • books on florence • books on guelphs • books on hectors • books on heres • books on hundred-acre woods • books on jammies • books on limbos • books on lyrics • books on musa • books on nine circles • books on oxford • books on penguins • books on piglets • books on purgatories • books on roller coasters • books on sappho • books on sinners • books on virgil • books on wasps • Canto • Cantos • Christianity • christian mysticism • christian mythology • Christian Philosophy • Christopher Robin • ciardi • Classic • Classic Literature • classic poetry • common speech • damnation • Damned • Dante • Dante Alighieri • Dantes Inferno • dante's terza • dark wood • Demons • Divine Comedy • Dogma • Envy • esolen • Evil • Florence • Fraud • Giants • Gluttony • Greed • Greek gods • Greek Mythology • guelphs • Hectors • hell • Heres • Heresy • Historical • hundred-acre wood • Inferno • jammy • john ciardi • Lansing • Limbo • Longfellow • Lust • lyric • Marius • michael palma • Musa • Mysticism • nine circles • nine rings of hell • Oxford • Pain • Penguin • Philosophy • Piglet • Poetry • pooh • pride • punishment • Punishments • purgatory • Purgatory:Paradise • Redemption • Religion • rhyme scheme • rhyming translation • Roller Coaster • Sappho • Satan • Seven Deadly Sins • shrieks • Sin • Sinners • Sins • Sloth • spiritual values • Suffering • terza rima • The Church • the Devil • The Divine Comedy • Theft • the Vatican • torment • Torture • Treachery • Venice • Versus • Vestibule of Hell • Violence • Virgil • Virgil the guide • wasps • wickedness • world-view • wrath
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-748-9 / 1628727489
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-748-7 / 9781628727487