{"product_id":"lectura-dantis-inferno-9780520920538","title":"Lectura Dantis, Inferno","description":"The 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.","brand":"Allen Mandelbaum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48200822423803,"sku":"9780520920538","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780520920538.jpg?v=1772481851","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/lectura-dantis-inferno-9780520920538","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}