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Uniting the most powerful energies of popular culture and the magnificent gothic edifice of Medieval scholasticism, Dante created a new language that combined an intense lyricism with the intellectual seriousness demanded of his project - nothing less than the creation of a Christian epic addressed to the common reader. Dante's synthesis of epic with lyric has bequeathed to modern artists and translators a permanent imperative to translate his art into contemporary, living speech.
In this new translation of the Inferno, Elio Zappulla successfully re-creates the immediacy, directness, and psychological force of Dante's original text.
Zappulla's faithfulness to Dante's Italian is matched by an executed commitment to convey to today's reader, through the lyrical cadences of everyday American English, the emotional and aesthetic impact of what he calls Dante's "complex simplicity." At the same time, the reader is never allowed to lose sight of the Inferno's intellectual majesty and moral grandeur.
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Poetry, Hell, Illustrations, Iconography, Translations into English, Pictorial works, Italian literature, Bibliography, Knowledge, Genealogy, History and criticism, Hell in literature, History, Texts, Translations, Sources, Esperanto, Italian poetry, Accessible book, OverDrive, Classic Literature, Fiction, Lending library, Protected DAISY, In library, Religious poetry, Medieval Poetry, Paradise, Inferno (Dante Alighieri), Poetry, Medieval, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Italian poetry, translations into english, Commentaries, Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Italian language materials, Bilingual, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Dante Alighieri,, Literature: Texts, Classics, Inferno, Continental European, Poetry / General, 1265-1321., 1265-1321, Romance literature, Sin, Redemption, Adaptations, Italian Epic poetry, Purgatory, Heaven, Hell--poetry, Pq4315.2 .p47 1994, 851/.1, Pq4315.2 .l64 2009, JudaismPlaces
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Dante's Inferno: translations by twenty contemporary poets
1993, Ecco Press
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Inferno: a verse translation
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Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
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