The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)

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This beautiful hardcover editioncontaining all three cantos Inferno Purgatorio and Paradisoincludes an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale a chronology notes and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticellis marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations. 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 Mandelbaums 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. Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid-free cream-colored paper with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon markers European-style half-round spines and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everymans Library Classics include an introduction a select bibliography and a chronology of the authors life and times.