Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the comic story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined, in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, that she was his guardian angel who alternately berated and encouraged him on his search for salvation. Politics as well as love deeply influenced Dante's literary and emotional life. Renaissance Florence was a thriving, but not a peaceful city: different opposing factions continually struggled for dominance there. The Guelfs and the Ghibellines were the two major factions, and in fact that division was important in all of Italy and other countries as well. The Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor were political rivals for much of this time period, and in general the Guelfs were in favor of the Pope, while the Ghibellines supported Imperial power. By 1289 in the battle of Campaldino the Ghibellines largely disappeared from Florence. Peace, however, did not insue. Instead, the Guelf party divided between the Whites and the Blacks (Dante was a White Guelf). The Whites were more opposed to Papal power than the Blacks, and tended to favor the emperor, so in fact the preoccupations of the White Guelfs were much like those of the defeated Ghibellines. In this divisive atmosphere Dante rose to a position of leadership. in 1302, while he was in Rome on a diplomatic mission to the Pope, the Blacks in Florence seized power with the help of the French (and pro-Pope) Charles of Valois. The Blacks exiled Dante, confiscating his goods and condemning him to be burned if he should return to Florence. Dante never returned to Florence. He wandered from city to city, depending on noble patrons there. Between 1302 and 1304 some attempts were made by the exiled Whites to retrieve their position in Florence, but none of these succeeded and Dante contented himself with hoping for the appearance of a new powerful Holy Roman Emperor who would unite the country and banish strife. Henry VII was elected Emperor in 1308, and indeed laid seige to Florence in 1312, but was defeated, and he died a year later, destroying Dante's hopes. Dante passed from court to court, writing passionate political and moral epistles and finishing his Divine Comedy, which contains the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. He finally died in Ravenna in 1321.
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
Rating: 4.2 ⭐
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"Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third." T. S. Eliot"Ciardi has given us a credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary gauds of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance." Dudley Fitts"A sensitive and perceptive translation;a spectacular achievement." Archibald MacLeishBelonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise; the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.Now, for the first time, John Ciardi's brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante's three soaring canticles The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso have been gathered together in a single volume. Crystallizing the power and beauty inherent in the great poet's immortal conception of the aspiring soul, The Divine Comedy is a dazzling work of sublime truth and mystical intensity."I think [Ciardi's] version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen." John Crowe Ransom
The radiant climax to Dante's awe-inspiring epic, in a definitive new translationHaving plunged to the utmost depths of Hell and climbed Mount Purgatory in the first two parts of The Divine Comedy , Dante now ascends to Heaven, guided by his beloved Beatrice, to continue his search for God. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise, he grows ever closer to experiencing divine love in the overwhelming presence of the deity. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment, Dante exercised all of his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation of one of the greatest of all Christian allegories. This edition prints Robin Kirkpatrick's impressive new translation alongside Dante's original Italian.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Professor Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno is the best one I have seen, for two reasons. His decision to use unrhymed blank verse allows him to come nearly as close to the meaning of the original as any prose reading could do, and allows him also to avoid the harrowing sacrifices that the demand for rhyme imposes on any translator. And his endnotes and other additions provoke answers to almost any question that could arise about the work." —A. Kent HieattA groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. 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 exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with scholars, teachers, and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.Esolen's edition also provides a critical ntroduction and endnotes, with appendices containing Dante's most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and beyond —that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.Verse Translation by Anthony EsolenIllustrations by Gustave Doré
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Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story set to the task of confirming the "new life" inspired by this meeting. With a critical introduction and explanatory notes, this is a new translation of a supreme work which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself.
'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Dante's works available in Penguin Classics are Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, The Divine Comedy and Vita Nuova.
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La obra que ha elevado a Dante hasta la cúspide de la más alta fama es La Divina Comedia.En palabras de su autor: "... el sentido de esta obra no es único sino plural: el primer significado arranca del texto literal, el segundo deriva de los significado por el texto (sentido alegórico)?. El asunto de La Divina Comedia, en sentido literal, es el estado de las almas después de la muerte. En su aspecto alegórico, el tema es el hombre sometido, por los méritos y deméritos de su libre albedrío, a la justicia del premio y del castigo."En el poema alternan sin cesar figuras e ideas del mundo antiguo y moderno y las citas de la Biblia se equilibran con las referencias al mundo clásico; más de medio millar de personajes pululan en él, signo de riqueza incomparable.La Divina Comedia constituye un monumento de la poesía y de la cultura medieval.
The scope and fire of Dante's genius in a single volume.Includes "The Divine Comedy," "The New Life," and other selected poems, prose, and letters accompanied by biographical and introductory sections.
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
This is the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory, until now only available in academic libraries. Dante's Monarchy addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organization best suits human nature; it embodies a political vision of startling originality and power, and illuminates the intellectual interests and achievements of one of the world's great poets. Prue Shaw's translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes, which provide a complete guide to the text, and places Monarchy in the context of Dante's life and work.
Obra maestra de la literatura universal y uno de los momentos cumbre de la cultura italiana, La divina comedia es un poema épico en el que Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) plasmó, mediante la unión de poesía y erudición, un viaje por el infierno, el purgatorio y el paraíso bajo la guía del poeta romano Virgilio y su amada Beatriz. He aquí la versión manga de dicho viaje iniciático hacia la redención en el que confluyen todos los sentimientos propios del ser humano.
Madrid. 24 cm. XXIII, 235 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Colección 'Colección Textos Clásicos'. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321. Edición, traducción del latín, introducción y notas de Matilde Rovira-Soler y Manuel Gil Esteve. Texto paralelo en latín y traaducción en español. - Bibliografí p. XXII-XXV. - Índices. Lengua italiana. Versificación. Lenguaje .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8474910331
Opera centrale sia per per quanto attiene all’evoluzione intellettuale di Dante, sia per quel che riguarda la sua successiva produzione letteraria, il Convivio è qui presentato in una raffinata e preziosa edizione “tascabile”, corredata da un’ampia introduzione e da opportune note di commento.
Под метафоричним насловом Дама каменог срца, Коља Мићевић је објединио Дантеове песме настајале у разним раздобљима његовог живота, упоредио с младалачком збирком Vita Nova као и појединим певањима Комедије. Италијани те стихове најчешће штампају заједно под наслов Риме.
Vita nuova · Rime. I. Vita nuova. Le rime della Vita nuova e altre rime del tempo della Vita nuova
by Dante Alighieri
Rating: 4.0 ⭐
La Vita nuova e le Rime sono, com’è noto, i primi prodotti dell’impegno letterario del giovane Dante: prima prova che lo condurrà al traguardo sommo della Commedia. È stato merito di Michele Barbi l’aver portato la produzione giovanile del Poeta a un grado di comprensione sconosciuto a tutte le epoche precedenti. E proprio dalle sue edizioni sono ripartiti i due Curatori, Donato Pirovano (Vita nuova) e Marco Grimaldi (Rime), non senza la dovuta attenzione ai risultati della critica recente.Ne è risultata un’edizione del tutto nuova, anche per l’ampio corredo storico-critico ed esegetico che la sostiene, in cui emerge da un lato la natura di opera autonoma della Vita nuova, dall’altro la profonda sua integrazione con il corpus delle Rime, che non potrebbe privarsi dei testi in essa inseriti.
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Una de las mayores obras de la literatura universal, presentada ahora en una nueva y cuidada edición. Destrucción, horror y redención: el clásico que ilumina sobre los terrores de la vida moderna. Crisis climática, body horror, guerras, espiritualidad: el Infierno de Dante nunca ha sido más actual.Con diseño del ilustrador Pedro Oyarbide y texto bilingüe en verso y prosa.Textos de Las Hijas de Felipe, Alessandro Maccarrone, Galileo, Diderot y muchos más. Acceso a la película de Francesco Bertolini (1911). Recitado por el actor italiano Vittorio Gassman. Más de 100 ilustraciones a todo color.
"His glory, by whose might all things are mov''d, Pierces the universe, and in one part Sheds more resplendence, elsewhere less. In heav''n, That largeliest of his light partakes, was I, Witness of things, which to relate again Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence; For that, so near approaching its desire Our intellect is to such depth absorb''d, That memory cannot follow. Nathless all, That in my thoughts I of that sacred realm Could store, shall now be matter of my song. "
Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem.Inferno: Thirty-five year old Dante finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in extreme personal and spiritual crisis. Hope of rescue appears in the form of the venerable poet Virgil, now a shade himself, who offers to lead Dante on an odyssey through the afterlife, beginning in the terrifying depths of Hell.Purgatorio: Dante is led up Mount Purgatory by his guide. They encounter numerous souls who have embarked on the same difficult journey - one that will eventually lead to their spiritual salvation.Paradiso: Dante's journey comes to a glorious conclusion as he is led by Beatrice, through the spheres of Paradise and into the presence of God himself. As they ascend, they encounter a number of souls who have also achieved blessedness. Many years later, the older Dante reflects on the episodes from his life that have inspired his great poem.
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Accanto alla poesia altissima e senza tempo della Divina Commedia è stata riunita in questo volume l'intera produzione dantesca, dalla Vita nuova (1292-93), l'intimo memoriale in rime e prosa poetica dell'amore di Dante per Beatrice, alle Rime, mai raccolte da Dante in un corpus unitario; dal Convivio, scritto in volgare tra il 1304 e il 1307 per rendere accessibili anche al pubblico più vasto temi scientifici e filosofici, al trattato latino De vulgari eloquentia; dal Monarchia, trattato politico in tre libri, alle due Egloghe latine composte tra il 1319 e il 1320, fino alle 13 Epistole latine, scritte tra il 1304 e il 1319, e alla Quaestio de aqua et de terra, tesi filosofica letta a Verona nel 1320.
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La "Divina Comedia" es la relación de un viaje en que, en su tránsito desde el Infierno hasta el Cielo, el autor encuentra su propia identidad. En esta obra de enorme fuerza expresiva Dante fundió el pensamiento filosófico con las ideas políticas y los conocimientos literarios. En ella, cada personaje, cada episodio, tiene un profundo significado que va más allá de la simple anécdota. La versión poética de Abilio Echeverría ha logrado respetar plenamente el sentido, el metro y el ritmo de la obra, sin despojarla de su grandeza. Completa la presente edición un prólogo a cargo de Carlos Alvar que recrea la biografía de Dante e ilustra el proceso de creación que alumbró la obra.
ضمن سلسلة كنوز الكتب القديمة - حلمي مراد - وتتضمن:1- رسالة الغفران2- الكوميديا الإلهية3- جمهورية أفلاطون
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La Divina Commedia - The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri in two languages (italian, english), and one dual language, parallel ... (translated) Vol. 2)
by Dante Alighieri
Rating: 4.7 ⭐
This electronic edition includes the original italian version and the line by line translation by H.W. Longfellow.You can move quickly back and forth by simply clicking a link in the Table of Contents.The Logical TOC (NCX) allows you to jump back and forth between topics with a simple press of the Kindle 5-way toggle (this option may not work in the free sample). English and ItalianSome of the editions have a synopsis at the start of each "Canto"Separate yesSuperior Kindle yesYou will find a single language edition in - LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (italian edition)It includes also a parallel edition, with a line by line - LA DIVINA COMMEDIA italian - english (Longfellow)These are some samples of the easy to read single and dual language formatDante wrote The Divine Comedy in 3 line stanzas with triple rime and this format has been maintained.LA DIVINA COMMEDIA italianNel mezzo del cammin di nostra vitami ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta via era smarrita.Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa duraesta selva selvaggia e aspra e forteche nel pensier rinova la paura!LA DIVINA COMMEDIA italian - english (Longfellow)1 Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita1 Midway upon the journey of our life2 mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,2 I found myself within a forest dark,3 ché la diritta via era smarrita.3 For the straightforward pathway had been lost.Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321), was the major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.