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  • RIME

    The Complete Lyric Poetry

    by Richard Lansing ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    For centuries, the sonnet tradition has captivated European writers, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and flourishing in the hands of Dante and Petrarch. Yet while Dante’s and Petrarch’s lyric poetry has long been available to English readers through numerous translations, the complete work of Giovanni Boccaccio – the third of Italy’s Three Crowns – remains largely inaccessible in English, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • God, Demons, And The Meaning Of Life

    Finding God In This Demonic World The True-Life Story Finding God

    by Richard Lansing ...
    Author's Note:Imagine growing up in a world where understanding is a rare and precious thing. Imagine feeling a pull your entire life, an unshakable drive to find your purpose, while sensing that the reality around us-the "matrix" we live in-is just a façade, masking deeper truths. It's not easy to live with a unique vision that others may not understand, or to feel isolated and pushed to grow ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dante's Lyric Poetry

    Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'

    Translated by Richard Lansing ...
    by Andrew Frisardi ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini

    by Giacomo da Lentini, Richard Lansing ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian School (c.1220-1270) as well as the inventor of the sonnet. Featuring illustrations and new English translations of some forty lyrics, Richard Lansing revives the work of a pioneer of Italian literature ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Edited by Richard Lansing ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid proseprovides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looki... ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

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  • Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Allen Mandelbaum ...
    A superb translation of Dante’s classic tale that chronicles the poet’s journey through the nine circles of Hell, a dual-language edition vividly rendered and with an introduction and commentary by National Book Award–winning translator Allen Mandelbaum“Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths.”—Robert Fagles, Princeton ... Read more

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    by Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, andhas entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Inferno: The Divine Comedy I

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Paradiso

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dante in Love

    The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History

    by Harriet Rubin ...
    Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. He found a vision and a language that made him immortal.Author Harriet Rubin follows Dante's path along the old ... Read more

    $13.99 USD