Dante Alighieri: 308 books

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From reading, Rossetti went on to translating. He translated at an early age, chiefly between 1845 and 1849, a great number of poems by the Italians contemporary with Dante, or preceding him; and, among other things, he made a version of the whole Vita Nuova, prose and verse. This may possibly have been...

Der Leser begleitet Dante in der Göttlichen Komödie auf einer langen Reise durch das Fegefeuer und die Hölle, bis er schließlich das Paradies erreicht. Auf der Suche nach dem Paradies begegnen ihm zahlreiche berühmte Denker und Entscheider des Mittelalters, die in ihren Eigenarten treffend karikiert...

La Vie nouvelle, premier grand texte lyrique en langue vulgaire, marque la naissance – en prose et en vers – de l’auto-biographisme. Le jeune Alighieri, à partir du “livre” de sa mémoire, y ordonne, selon une structure tripartite restituée par l’édition Gorni (annonçant l’architecture...

“Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen Greenblatt The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s translation—decades in the making—gives us the entire epic as a single,...

Le deuxième tome de cette grande épopée poétique nous fait visiter, après l'Enfer, le Purgatoire. Dante est toujours guidé par la poète latin Virgile, qui représente la Raison, jusqu'au XXXe chant, où il trouve la douce et vertueuse Béatrice qui l'accueille, le juge, pardonne et le conduit au Paradis.

La Divina Comedia es una de las obras señeras de la humanidad. Nadie hasta hoy ha logrado alcanzar las cumbres de la inspiración y la fantasía arrebatadora de que hace gala el genial florentino en su poema inmortal. Guiado por Virgilio y de la mano de Beatriz, su angelical enamorada, Dante canta...

La Divina Comedia es un poema donde se mezcla la vida real con la sobrenatural, muestra la lucha entre la nada y la inmortalidad, una lucha donde se superponen tres reinos, tres mundos, logrando una suma de múltiples visuales que nunca se contradicen o se anulan. Los tres mundos infierno, purgatorio...

El Convivio es una obra de Dante durante el exilio, entre 1304 y 1307. El término "convivio" viene latín convivium y significa "banquete". El objetivo del tratado, escrito en dialectoflorentino (volgare), consiste justamente en brindar un "banquete de sabiduría"...

Il mito di Ulisse è diventato, nel tempo, una storia infinita, declinata in mille modi, con mille diverse sfumature. Le vicende del suo viaggio - da Troia ad Itaca -, narrate come fantastiche avventure alla corte dei Feaci, hanno posto le basi per trasformare l'uomo del ritorno, il reduce per eccellenza,...

An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries,...

Invocation to the Muses. — Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory. — The Four Stars. — Cato. — The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell.

In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.

An exquisite medley of lyrical verse and poetic prose, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ranks among the supreme revelations in the literature of love. Its allegorical view of the soul's crisis and growth combines a narrative with meditations, dreams, songs, and prayers.In this masterpiece of his youth, Dante...