{"product_id":"lectura-dantis-inferno-a-canto-by-canto-commentary-9780520212701","title":"Lectura Dantis, Inferno: A Canto-By-Canto Commentary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Allen Mandelbaum | Anthony Oldcorn | Charles Ross\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as \"exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths,\" and by the late James Merrill as \"lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes.\" Charles Simic called the work \"a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of commentaries on the first part of the \u003ci\u003eComedy\u003c\/i\u003e consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614594220183,"sku":"9780520212701","price":3749.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520212701.webp?v=1775094835","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lectura-dantis-inferno-a-canto-by-canto-commentary-9780520212701","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}