![]() ![]() The concise Introduction presents essential biographical and historical background and a discussion of the form of the poem. Martinez and Durling's Introduction and Notes are designed with the first-time reader in mind, but will be useful to others as well. ![]() The Italian text has been newly edited with a view to the needs of American and English readers. Readers will prize the directness and clarity, the rich expressiveness, and the rigorous accuracy of this contemporary prose translation, which preserves to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's syntax, unhampered by any constraints of meter or rhyme. ![]() The first volume of this new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor. ![]()
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