{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-isbn-9780140448955","title":"The Divine Comedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first part of Dante's epic poem \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, \u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003edepicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. Portraying a huge diversity of characters culminating in a horrific vision of Satan, the \u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003ebroke new ground in the vigour of its language and storytelling. It has had a particular influence on Modernist writers and their successors throughout the world.   Printed in English with facing pages in Dante's Italian, this edition offers commentaries and notes on each canto by Robert Kirkpatrick.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“A masterly translation.” ―\u003cb\u003eJudith Thurman, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kirkpatrick brings a more nuanced sense of the Italian and a more mediated appreciation of the poem’s construction than nearly all of his competitors. . . . There is much to recommend here―certainly the intelligence, the energy, the linguistic range. . . . His introduction and canto-by-canto notes are remarkably level and lucid, as attentive to structure as to syntax, language and motif, and deftly cross-reference the whole poem. On their own, they would justify the price.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e―\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e(London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We gain much from Kirkpatrick’s fidelity to syntax and nuance, and from the fact that the Italian is on the facing page for our inspection. . . . His introduction . . . tells you, very readably indeed, pretty much all you need for a heightened appreciation of the work. . . . Kirkpatrick edges us, smoothly, into Dante’s mind, and shows just how and why his influence has seemed to grow with the passage of time. We even get a map of \u003ci\u003etrecento\u003c\/i\u003e Italy (nestling against a map of hell). . . . If the \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e are as good as this, then English readers will, I hope, start familiarising themselves with the two-thirds of the work most never get round to reading.” —\u003cb\u003eNicholas Lezard, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Likely to be the best modern version of Dante . . . The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism.” —\u003cb\u003eBernard O’Donoghue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation—a deeply informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read.” —\u003cb\u003eDavid Wallace, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDante Alighieri\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1265. Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is \u003ci\u003eLa Vita Nuova \u003c\/i\u003e(1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. Married to Gemma Donatic, Dante's political activism resulted in his being exiled from Florence to eventually settle in Ravenna. It is believed that \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e-comprised of three canticles, \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Purgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paradiso\u003c\/i\u003e-was written between 1308 and 1320. Dante Alighieri died in 1321. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Robin Kirkpatrick\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and widely-published Dante scholar.   He has taught courses on Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e in Hong Kong, Dublin, and Cambridge where he is Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299784511717,"sku":"NP9780140448955","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140448955.jpg?v=1767739043","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-divine-comedy-isbn-9780140448955","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}