Project muse dantes inferno, the indiana critical edition. The best way to ensure a good experience with this poem is for you to choose a translation that is intended to be readable, with good notes on the text. The divine comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translation decades in the making gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively listenable lyric poem. Dantes inferno audio dramatization featuring corin redgrave duration. The divine comedy dramatic reading audiobook dante alighieri 1265 21, translated by courtney langdon 1861 1924 support our channel. Dante alighieris divine comedy, volume 3 and volume 4. But even before shakespeare, this book heralded in an uncommonly twisted and almost perverse story of dantes descent into hell.
An acclaimed translation of dante alighieris the divine comedy volume 1. Dante alighieri the inferno musa translation lyrics. Best known for his translations of the italian classics dante and the poetry of the middle ages, he was distinguished professor emeritus of german, french and italian at indiana university. This new critical edition, including mark musa s classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation. He was a guggenheim fellow and the author of a number of books and articles. This new critical edition, including mark musa s classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of dantes masterpiece. Alighieri, dante, musa, mark, musa, mark, musa, mark. I cut my teeth on the poem with the translation by mark musa. Written around 21, the book predates most of the classics, except homers works of course. Purgatorio by dante alighieri, translated by mark musa. Italy fulbright commission 19561958, and the johns hopkins university m. One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, the divine comedy or commedia of dante alighieri is a book for life. The divine comedy audiobook by clive james translator.
Dramatic, intense, and gripping, the inferno of dante is an astonishing masterpiece that no listener can afford to miss. Inferno has 3 available editions to buy at half price books. The subject of the whole work, then, taken in the literal sense alone, is simply the state of souls after death, for the movement of the whole work hinges on this. Purgatory full audiobook greatest audio books dante alighieri the divine comedy italian.
In purgatory ii, 104105, casella tells the pilgrim that after death all the souls that. Alighieri, dante author musa, mark translated by musa, mark. Mark musa is a professor at the center for italian studies at indiana university. Musa translated and edited the portable dante and, with peter bondanella, the portable machiavelli, both published by penguin books. Purgatory full audiobook greatest audio books dante alighieri duration. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his death in 21, is widely considered the central epic poem of italian literature, the last great work of literature of the middle ages. Mark musa, distinguished professor of italian at indiana university, has translated and edited critical editions of many italian literary classics, including dantes divine comedy. Thus it is no mistake that he organizes his work so carefully around them. Written in the early 0s, dantes inferno is the first of three epic poems from the divine comedy, a book written by renowned renaissance poet dante alighieri. The notes by mark musa seem to occupy nearly as much room as story they. Dante alighieris divine comedy, volume 3 and volume 4 by dante alighieri, 9780253336484, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Mark louis musa 1934 december 31, 2014 was a translator and scholar of italian literature. A former fulbright and guggenheim fellow, musa is the author of a highly acclaimed translation of dantes divine comedy. Why every person in the world should read dante s commedia professor bill cook duration.
Volume 4 of indianas sixvolume edition of dantes divine comedy consists of mark musa. Dantes vita nuova, new edition indiana university press. In a brilliantly constructed narrative of his imaginary guided. Inferno is the first part of dantes epic poem the divine comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, selfdeception, political doubledealing and treachery. In this epic poem, the narrator dante is accompanied by the roman poet virgil as the pair travels down into the depths of hell. Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original, this penguin classics edition is translated from the italian with an introduction by mark musa. Numbers are important to dante, who associates three with the trinity. The portable dante penguin classics by alighieri, dante and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. I have always been a little disappointed that most people only read dantes inferno because i think the books. Robert pinsky, the distinguished american poet, preserves the burning clarity and universal relevance of this th century literary masterpiece in a triumphant new translation. In this new edition musa views dantes intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and selfpity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love.
This vigorous translation of inferno preserves dantes simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original italian verse. In dan browns inferno, we find robert langdon reading allen mandelbaums translation of dantes poem. The acclaimed translation of the inferno that retains all of the style, power, and meaning of the original. There dante witnesses the souls who delight in the punishments that purify them and allow them to see the face of god. Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original a penguin classic this vigorous translation of. Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan aeneas, the liar odysseus, the suicide cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit.
Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original a penguin classic this vigorous translation of inferno preserves dantes simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original italian verse. Although i had read dantes work and quite enjoyed it previously, this book really brought the entire comedy into a new light for me. This translation of dantes inferno aims to preserve dantes natural style while capturing the. Vita nuova 129294 is regarded as dantes most profound creation. Virgil explains to the pilgrim in the last canto of the inferno xxxiv, i2ift that the mountain of purgatory rises in the middle of the earths southern hemisphere opposite jerusalem. The portable dante captures the scope and fire of dantes genius as thoroughly as any single volume can. Peter bondanella the portable machiavelli, also published by penguin books. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his death in 21, is widely considered the central epic poem of italian literature, the last great work of literature of the middle ages and the first great work of the renaissance. Best known for his translations of the italian classics dante, petrarch. When lu cifer fell from heaven through to the center of the earth, the mate. The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great english versions of the divine comedy in his translation of paradise, mark musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled his versions of inferno and purgatory to capture the vibrant power and full dramatic force of dantes. Excerpts from inferno from the divine comedy by dante alighieri translated by mark musa.