The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (v.2)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
This first volume of this new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Inferno and, on facing pages, a new prose translation (the first in twenty-five years). Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society.Martinez and Durling's introduction and notes are designed with the first-time reader of