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Dante's Purgatory

Dante Alighieri author Mark Musa translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:22nd Sep '81

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1981

Mark Musa again brings his poetic sensitivity and his skill as a translator to the difficult task of making Dante's masterpiece live for English-speaking readers. His rendering of the Purgatory is distinguished by the same flexible iambic verse, the same dignified understatement, and the same elegant clarity that characterizes Dante's own lofty and complex style. Musa's extensive annotation as well as his prose introduction to each of the cantos reveal the hand of the careful scholar and craftsman.

ISBN: 9780253179265

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 653g

384 pages