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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 851.1
EAN num: 9780199535644
ISBN number: 0199535647
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 752
Printing Date: May 15, 2008
Publishing house: Oxford University Press, USA
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Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the 'fifth gospel' because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages.
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This translation was done in 1980 in free blank verse.
I find it incredibly bland, plain, un-visionary and extremely un-poetic.
The opposite of these are the qualities that make Dante's Divine Comedy immortal and entertaining...
It's as if Sisson is "trying" to make Dante's epic un-interesting!
I often recommend having at least 2 different translations, and as I am dissapointed by this one I stand by Ciarni's and Huse's beautiful and magisterial versions.
Good luck!
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