The Divine Comedy: Volume 1. The Inferno (Italian Text & Translation), Volume 2. (Commentary).

Dante Alighieri, Translated, with a Commentary, by Charles A. Singleton.

ISBN 10: 0691098557 / ISBN 13: 9780691098555

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) & London (UK), 1970

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META-CLASSIC: MONUMENTAL: SPLENDID: TRIUMPHANT: INDISPENSABLE: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition two-volume hardcover set (Orig. 1970) Printing Unstated (We believe this to be the First Printing): FINE mylar-protected very-slightly-soiled dust-jackets both price-clipped on the diagonal at inside-front flyleaf & w/ EXCELLENT generally sharp AS-NEW edges & corners but / slight chipping-wear evident at spine-caps, both volumes w/ FINE library-durable classic-gray linen-over-boards covers w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & w/ titles gilt-stamped on black leather title panels inset on the spines, both volumes w/ IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors remarkably free of shelf-dust soiling, both volumes w/ IMPECCABLE handsome cream-ocher card-stock end-papers, both volumes w/ AS-NEW sewn bindings w/ air-tight signatures & w/ silk-finish ivory cloth banding at spine-caps, both volumes w/ SUPERB interiors beautifully & clearly presenting the texts w/ (Volume 1) Italian verse texts (left) facing English prose translations (right) w/ the Italian texts line-numbered at intervals of "3" to the right & (Volume 2) notes presented in clear sequential one-column-format * VOLUME 1: 5.12" x 8.16" x 0.90", 0.48 kg, viii+384 (392) pp. VOLUME 2: 5.12" x 8.16" x 1.62", 0.82 kg, xii+684+ 3 pp folded-end-map (699) pp. VOLUMES 1 & 2: 5.12" x 8.16" x 2.52", 1.30 kg, xx+1068+3 pp * ABOUT THE BOOKS: Charles S. Singleton's edition of the "Divine Comedy", of which this is the first part, provides English-speaking readers w/ everything required to read & understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is the edition of Giorgo Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's lucid prose translations, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on ea. page, is smooth & literate. The companion volume, the Commentary, marshals every point of information the reader may require: vocabulary; grammar; identification of Dante's characters; historical sources of some of the incidents &, where pertinent, excerpts from those sources in their original languages & in translation; profound & clear analysis of the "Divine Comedy's" basic allegory. There is a complete bibliography of every aspect of Dante studies. Francis Fergusson has written of this edition: "We are very lucky that SIngleton is the great contemporary interpreter of Dante. It is clear that his work . . . supersedes everything else of the kind." * HIGHEST PRAISE for the translation of Professor Charles S. Singleton: "A SPLENDID translation. What TRIUMPHANT JOY it is to see the honest light of literality take over again, after ages of meretricious paraphrase." -Vladimir Nabokov - "With the publication of Singleton's edition of "The Divine Comedy", we have in English a truly SCHOLARLY edition which can at last vie w/ editions in Italian & German. This MONUMENTAL work will be INDISPENSABLE for all lover's of this masterpiece who wish to root it in its linguistic, historical & social reality." -Speculum * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this EXCELLENT copy for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Divine Comedy: Volume 1. The Inferno (Italian Text & Translation), Volume 2. (Commentary).
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) & London (UK)
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691098557
• ISBN 13: 9780691098555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Volume 2. (Commentary) is illustrated w/ 9 plates, 7 figures, & 4 maps.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: Printing Unstated
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1.3 kilograms

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The description for this book, The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Parts 1 and 2: Text and Commentary. (Two volume set), will be forthcoming.

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"Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy will certainly be the edition for readers in English. The translation is much the most satisfactory one I know. The commentary is the most complete and authoritative in English. It is clear that Singleton's work on the Inferno supersedes everything else of the kind."--Francis Fergusson