MR Dante Alighieri

Gebundenes Buch

Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Beschreibung

Immensely popular, and commanding a larger audience than any other poet in America, Longfellow produced a body of work which skillfully rendered European culture into terms his New World readers readily appreciated -- with his translation of The Inferno one of his most important offerings.

Autor

Durante degli Alighieri (1265 - 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences. In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended use of the vernacular in literature. He himself would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the aforementioned Divine Comedy; this choice, although highly unorthodox, set a hugely important precedent that later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. As a result, Dante played an instrumental role in establishing the national language of Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aegypan
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781606648827
• ISBN-10: 1606648829
• Artikelnr.: 23893556