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Dantes Inferno in Modern English by Dante Alighieri; Douglas Neff; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator)
Category: Classics
Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscu ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri; Henry Longfellow
Category: Classics
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brill ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator)
Category: Cult Fiction
Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and ...Show more
The Divine Comedy / la Divina Commedia - Parallel Italian / English Translation by Dante Alighieri; Henry Longfellow (Translator)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
This edition gives a side-by-side parallel translation of Dante's Divine Comedy using Longfellow's translation. The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is generally considered to be the preeminent work of Italian literature and one of the great ...Show more
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