{"product_id":"inferno-a-new-verse-translation-9780679757085","title":"Inferno: A New Verse Translation","description":"\"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the \u003cb\u003eInferno\u003c\/b\u003e, the first of the three canticles of Dante's \u003cb\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/b\u003e, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If Dante's \u003cb\u003eInferno\u003c\/b\u003e is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElio Zappullo lives in Stony Brook, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872747360530,"sku":"9780679757085","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5ec021b-86ee-4254-bbad-8b2d55a2ca05.jpg?v=1737908192","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/inferno-a-new-verse-translation-9780679757085","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}