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As is characteristic of his previous translations, Lombardo addresses his version of \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e not only to readers but also to listeners and succeeds in recreating the various stages on which the \u003ci\u003eComedy\u003c\/i\u003e was originally received and presented: private readings at home and more public oral performances either for small, intimate groups within the palazzo walls or before large crowds in the town square. . . . In her fine Introduction, instructive headnotes to individual cantos, and extensive explanatory endnotes, Alison Cornish provides all the information necessary for a profitable reading of the \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . This handsome bilingual edition is a welcome addition to the large and ever increasing number of annotated translations of Dante's Comedy.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Christopher Kleinhenz, Carol Mason Kirk Professor Emeritus of Italian, University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003cbr\u003e\"The distinctive combination of Lombardo's lucid rendering of Dante's poem with Cornish's judicious commentary will make this volume a remarkable resource for both new and seasoned readers. It not only provides the necessary coordinates to comprehend Dante's daring description of eternity but also offers new insights about the work’s relation to its historical, philosophical, and literary contexts.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Martin Eisner, Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\"This translation and commentary are an essential contribution to Dante's reception in English. Stanley Lombardo's translation is accurate, elegant, and transparent, a mirror of the original text. Alison Cornish's commentary is lucid, graceful, and precise, with just the right level of detail; it penetrates and opens the Paradiso's philosophical, scientific, and theological dimensions with authority, balance, sensitivity, and simplicity. Perhaps now more readers will follow Dante to Paradise.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Christian Moevs, Associate Professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887025271127,"sku":"9781624665912","price":49.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781624665912.jpg?v=1722542650"},{"product_id":"paradiso-9781624665905","title":"Paradiso","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike his groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e (Hackett, 2009) and\u003ci\u003e Purgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e features a close yet dynamic verse translation, innovative verse paragraphing for reader-friendliness, and a facing-page Italian text. It also offers an extraordinarily helpful set of notes and headnotes as well as Introduction—all designed for first-time readers of the canticle—by Alison Cornish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lombardo makes Dante's verses come alive in so many ways that this crowning achievement stands on its own as inspired poetry, readily comprehensible and reliably attentive to the many different registers that the Florentine poet incorporates in his text. Despite its reputation as the most challenging of the three canticles, the \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e, in Lombardo's dramatically charged version, becomes remarkably transparent. . . . As is characteristic of his previous translations, Lombardo addresses his version of \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e not only to readers but also to listeners and succeeds in recreating the various stages on which the \u003ci\u003eComedy\u003c\/i\u003e was originally received and presented: private readings at home and more public oral performances either for small, intimate groups within the palazzo walls or before large crowds in the town square. . . . In her fine Introduction, instructive headnotes to individual cantos, and extensive explanatory endnotes, Alison Cornish provides all the information necessary for a profitable reading of the \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . This handsome bilingual edition is a welcome addition to the large and ever increasing number of annotated translations of Dante's Comedy.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Christopher Kleinhenz, Carol Mason Kirk Professor Emeritus of Italian, University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003cbr\u003e\"The distinctive combination of Lombardo's lucid rendering of Dante's poem with Cornish's judicious commentary will make this volume a remarkable resource for both new and seasoned readers. It not only provides the necessary coordinates to comprehend Dante's daring description of eternity but also offers new insights about the work’s relation to its historical, philosophical, and literary contexts.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Martin Eisner, Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\"This translation and commentary are an essential contribution to Dante's reception in English. Stanley Lombardo's translation is accurate, elegant, and transparent, a mirror of the original text. Alison Cornish's commentary is lucid, graceful, and precise, with just the right level of detail; it penetrates and opens the Paradiso's philosophical, scientific, and theological dimensions with authority, balance, sensitivity, and simplicity. Perhaps now more readers will follow Dante to Paradise.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Christian Moevs, Associate Professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame\u003cbr\u003e\"Unlike the crowd-pleasing, visceral and eviscerating \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e is not exactly a page-turner. It's rather a quiet journey that demands we slow down, think, and feel before attempting to assimilate higher wisdom, more divine geometry, choreography, and optic theory, and before we meet more of the heroes from the Christian canon, cherishing their divine placement (Look how high Augustine made it. Great to see Joachim of Fiore!, etc.). \u003cb\u003eLombardo's and Cornish's book, as a book, is engineered to inspire and facilitate this sort of reading\u003c\/b\u003e, with ample access to the language, ingenuity, creativity and care that Dante summons as he attempted, as far as a poet ever could, to express God's justice and His grace. \u003cb\u003eThis is a great classroom text, a tremendously useful parallel-text edition for students, general readers, and anyone at any level studying Dante\u003c\/b\u003e.       \"Parallel texts serve best in the modern multicultural classroom where multilingual and monolingual speakers alike can directly engage with the majestic text. \u003cb\u003eI have been teaching Dante for 25 years in a historically Hispanic institution and always cherished them because my bilingual students hear the roots of their own linguistic cultures in the Italian and experience both joy and empowerment in doing so\u003c\/b\u003e.     \"One should never underestimate how timely and important are the many themes that one encounters in the \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e, such as the experiences of the holy women in the early cantos who were forced into marriage and away from their monastic vows, a stunning episode that explores human and particular female agency in shaping one's own personal and spiritual destiny. Also the depictions of equity, equality, and diversity in heaven will be of great interest to modern readers concerned with social order and social justice. \u003cb\u003eWhat fascinating class discussions can arise from contemplating the medieval and the modern\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eand the divine and earthly\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eurges for justice! Such questions help keep Dante alive and relevant at a time when many teachers fear for the future of the Humanities. To this labor of preserving the past and its great Humanist writers, Lombardo and Cornish have contributed mightily\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e      \"Lombardo in his Translator's Preface (xxix) says that his translation of the \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e has been accused of sounding something like the dialogue in a Scorsese movie. \u003cb\u003eAnd there are in fact some Scorsese-esque moments even here in paradise\u003c\/b\u003e, such as when Charles Martel lists various illustrious figures born to great destiny during a discussion of how both birth and divine influence play a part in shaping human destiny: \"So one is born a Solon, another Xerxes, \/ one Melchizedek, and another the one \/ who flew through the air and lost his son\" (81: VIII 124-126), lines directly modeled on the Wizard's rundown of human vocational differences to Travis in Scorsese's \u003ci\u003eTaxi Driver\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAmong a thousand gems, that is, moments when the translation just nails the moment in mood, diction, tone and or register, I would note some favorites: XII.91-94 (p. 119); XII.70-74 (p. 117); and XII.37-39 (p. 95)\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e      \"\u003cb\u003eCornish's notes to each canto, judicious and hyper-clear\u003c\/b\u003e, are in the back of the book, supporting undistracted reading. The notes guide and mentor the reader, reinforcing what we just read and providing historical information or identification of figures and concepts. Cornish begins each canto with an overview of the characters and content, and uses key words in the original Italian to introduce major terms and concepts. Her introduction is particularly warm and welcoming, emphasizing the themes of knowledge and most of all love that animate Dante's journey and his relationship with Beatrice. \u003cb\u003eThe entire apparatus forged by Cornish breaks down many barriers to reading Dante\u003c\/b\u003e, in part by directly addressing the traditional preference for the \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e. One could build a course on Dante out of her economic survey of the liberal arts authors she nimbly weaves into the discussion of cosmology, justice, order, and heaven.\u003cbr\u003e After the Introduction a spatial map with an elegant rose and spread sheet of canto, location, class of the blessed, and major characters helps readers to chart their personal journey upward.\u003cbr\u003e       \"\u003cb\u003eThis publication will help ensure that new generations of readers are welcomed into this unique and ineffable journey. I look forward to teaching it as soon as possible\u003c\/b\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e      —Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles, in \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887025500503,"sku":"9781624665905","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781624665905.jpg?v=1722542652"},{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-paradise-volume-3-paradise-9780140441055","title":"The Divine Comedy  Paradise Volume 3 Paradise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe third volume of Dante's Divine Comedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved – the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady – he combined them into a great allegory of the soul’s search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. In Paradise, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. 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Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transition to the lost Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit, where he meets his dead love, Beatrice, and prepares to ascend to Heaven. Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, Dante's poem transformed the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection. It is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human possibility, hope and redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A masterly translation.” ―\u003cb\u003eJudith Thurman, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kirkpatrick brings a more nuanced sense of the Italian and a more mediated appreciation of the poem's construction than nearly all of his competitors.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We gain much from Kirkpatrick’s fidelity to syntax and nuance. . . . His introduction . . . tells you, very readable indeed, pretty much all you need for a heightened appreciation of the work.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Likely to be the best modern version of Dante . . . The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism.” —\u003cb\u003eBernard O’Donoghue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation—a deeply informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read.” —\u003cb\u003eDavid Wallace, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083361853783,"sku":"9780140448962","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140448962.jpg?v=1725548672"},{"product_id":"vita-nuova-9780199540655","title":"Vita Nuova","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVita Nuova (1292-94) is the first of Dante''s major writings. It is a supreme work of love; thirty-one poems are linked by a lyrical prose narrative poem celebrating and debating the subject of love. In the opening chapter Dante sets himself the task of giving meaning to the poetry which he composed and the events which took place after his meeting with Beatrice and the `Lord of Love''. The `new life'' which this meeting inspired is the subject of Dante''s most profound creation, which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'the Vita Nuova calls for a bold translator ... 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Loving her for the rest of his life with a devotion undiminished by even her untimely death, he would dedicate himself to transfiguring her, through poetry, into something far more than a muse—she would become the very proof of love as transcendent spiritual power, and the adoration of her a radiant path into a “new life.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Censored by the Church, written in the Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin, exploding the courtly love tradition of the medieval troubadours, and employing an unprecedented hybrid form to link the thirty-one poems with prose commentary, \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1294,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This pitch-perfect translation, accompanied by a splendid introduction and the original Italian, beautifully captures the marvelous strangeness of young Dante’s ‘new life’ as the lover and poet of Beatrice, and will be the go-to English edition for many years to come.” —\u003cb\u003eGuy P. Raffa, author of \u003ci\u003eDante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This lucid translation, paired here with the original Italian, allows readers to experience Dante’s narrative, poetic, and critical innovations in a fresh, contemporary idiom and produces a dialogue that reveals hidden dimensions of Dante’s rich and puzzling work that will surprise both familiar and new readers.” ―\u003cb\u003eMartin Eisner, author of \u003ci\u003eDante’s New Life of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Virginia Jewiss’s edition of the \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e provides an old book with a new lease on life. Her concise introduction is fresh and inviting, her translation faithful to Dante’s thirteenth-century Italian but with an ear for the sound of contemporary English. Newcomers to the work as well as its seasoned readers have a treat in store.” ―\u003cb\u003ePeter S. Hawkins, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDante’s Testaments \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDante: A Brief History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sheer joy. Virginia Jewiss has captured the riveting intensity of this strange, enthralling tale with language of rare beauty, deploying the ancient English repertory of alliteration, assonance, and poetic meter to evoke, rather than reproduce, Dante’s rhymed verse. Her introduction and notes help further to unlock the mystery of a poet just reaching the height of his powers and the blazing passions he transformed into a work that still pulses with the spontaneity of his first improvisations.” ―\u003cb\u003eIngrid D. Rowland, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Pompeii, Giordano Bruno, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of the High Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“On my library shelf are ten translations of Dante’s \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, but only one translation of his spiritual autobiography the \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e. This imbalance may reflect our enduring human preoccupation with the hellscape we have made of the world. But there is no reason this should be so. Our own age is also in love with hybrid literary texts, with textual instability, and with hypertext. Virginia Jewiss’s new translation of the \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e reintroduces us to a great original in Western literature, with its multiple narrative perspectives and its enigmatic interplay among poetry, memoir, and glossing. By the grace and intelligence of her work, Jewiss foreshortens the enormous distance separating us from the culture of Dante’s time, so that Dante’s spiritual passion burns undimmed.” ―\u003cb\u003eKarl Kirchwey, author of \u003ci\u003eStumbling Blocks: Roman Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dante’s \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e remains a well-head of lyric art. 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Some seven hundred years later, her lapidary new translation can perhaps give new life to grateful readers, too.” ―\u003cb\u003eAndrew Hui, Yale-NUS College\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49369133908311,"sku":"9780143106203","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780143106203.jpg?v=1730128515"},{"product_id":"inferno-9780393977967","title":"Inferno","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Norton Critical Edition of Dante’s masterpiece is based on Michael Palma’s verse translation, which is acclaimed for its elegant rendering of Dante’s triple-rhyme scheme into contemporary English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Norton Critical Edition of Dante’s masterpiece is based on Michael Palma’s verse translation, which is acclaimed for its elegant rendering of Dante’s triple-rhyme scheme into contemporary English. 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