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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, educator, and linguist, wrote many long narrative poems, including The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, and The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Matthew Pearl is the author of the novel The Dante Club, published by Random House, and is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School. In 1998 he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lino Pertile is a professor of Romance languages and literature at Harvard University. He specializes in Dante and the Latin Middle Ages.
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Inferno
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $6.95
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. Read more >
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $6.95
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. Read more >
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The Divine Comedy
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1955
Price: $12.95
The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. Read more >
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1955
Price: $12.95
The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. Read more >
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The Inferno
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $16.95
The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $16.95
The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master... Read more >
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Purgatorio
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
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Paradiso
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine.
Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine.
Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
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Inferno
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $10.95
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante’s literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $10.95
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante’s literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the... Read more >
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Paradiso
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Inferno
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $12.00
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $12.00
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences. Read more >
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Inferno
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $13.00
"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times
In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $13.00
"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times
In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the... Read more >
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Purgatorio
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $19.95
Now I shall sing the second kingdom,
there where the soul of man is cleansed,
made worthy to ascend to heaven.
In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $19.95
Now I shall sing the second kingdom,
there where the soul of man is cleansed,
made worthy to ascend to heaven.
In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >
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Purgatory
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $11.95
A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
Includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. In this groundbreaking new translation of Dante's most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatory, Dante struggles... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $11.95
A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
Includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. In this groundbreaking new translation of Dante's most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatory, Dante struggles... Read more >
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Paradise
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $12.95
“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $12.95
“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >
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Inferno
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $27.95
An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante’s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $27.95
An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante’s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook,
paperback,
paperback,
trade paperback,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Paradise
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $27.95
The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach."
The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $27.95
The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach."
The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Purgatorio
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $22.00
At the pinnacle of a grand and prolific career, W. S. Merwin has given us a shimmering new verse translation of the central section of Dante's Divine Comedy -- the Purgatorio.
Led by Virgil, inspired by his love for Beatrice, Dante makes the arduous journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where souls... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $22.00
At the pinnacle of a grand and prolific career, W. S. Merwin has given us a shimmering new verse translation of the central section of Dante's Divine Comedy -- the Purgatorio.
Led by Virgil, inspired by his love for Beatrice, Dante makes the arduous journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where souls... Read more >
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Purgatory
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $24.95
A brilliant new translation of the centerpiece of The Divine Comedy
Purgatory, the mountain that straightens souls made crooked by the world, is Dante’s single most conceptually brilliant creation. Anthony Esolen’s vivid and innovative new rendering unearths Dante’s own voice with unprecedented vigor, accuracy, and a masterly use of English meter. It... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $24.95
A brilliant new translation of the centerpiece of The Divine Comedy
Purgatory, the mountain that straightens souls made crooked by the world, is Dante’s single most conceptually brilliant creation. Anthony Esolen’s vivid and innovative new rendering unearths Dante’s own voice with unprecedented vigor, accuracy, and a masterly use of English meter. It... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Paradise
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $12.95
“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $12.95
“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Purgatory
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $11.95
A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
Includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. In this groundbreaking new translation of Dante's most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatory, Dante struggles... Read more >
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $11.95
A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
Includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. In this groundbreaking new translation of Dante's most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatory, Dante struggles... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Dante's Inferno
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 19, 2010
Price: $13.00
The timeless classic of a journey through the horrors of hell
The action adventure blockbuster that's rocking the video game world
All hell is breaking loose. Electronic Arts' thrilling video game Dante's Inferno has exploded on the scene and this book provides unique insight into its creation. Go back to the source with... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 19, 2010
Price: $13.00
The timeless classic of a journey through the horrors of hell
The action adventure blockbuster that's rocking the video game world
All hell is breaking loose. Electronic Arts' thrilling video game Dante's Inferno has exploded on the scene and this book provides unique insight into its creation. Go back to the source with... Read more >
Inferno
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $6.95
"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times
In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $6.95
"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times
In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover,
paperback,
paperback,
trade paperback,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
Paradiso
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $6.95
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $6.95
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Purgatorio
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $6.95
"The enjoyment of The Divine Comedy is a continuous process," observed T.S. Eliot. "It is not necessary to understand the meaning first to enjoy the poetry...our enjoyment of the poetry makes us want to understand the meaning."
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $6.95
"The enjoyment of The Divine Comedy is a continuous process," observed T.S. Eliot. "It is not necessary to understand the meaning first to enjoy the poetry...our enjoyment of the poetry makes us want to understand the meaning."
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of... Read more >
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