Dante (The Essential Commedia) by Prue Shaw ISBN 9781324096214, 1324096217 instant download

Dante (The Essential Commedia) by Prue Shaw ISBN 9781324096214, 1324096217 instant download

Prue Shaw's absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come.

The Commedia, Dante's epic story of one man's journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in heaven, is one of the greatest works of Western literature, but it can seem daunting to the English-speaking reader. College courses often cherry-pick the most arresting passages from Inferno and barely glance at the equally compelling Purgatorio and Paradiso.
In The Essential "Commedia," Prue Shaw, a renowned Dante scholar, expertly guides the reader on an enthralling tour through all three realms of the afterlife. Extensive passages of the work's greatest poetry—about one third of the whole—are astutely excerpted and presented in English translation alongside the original Italian. A linking commentary summarizes the elided sections, distilling the epic into a series of vivid...