Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical EditionIndiana University Press, 1995 - 409 pages "This new critical edition includes Mark Musa's classic verse translation and provides students with a clear, readable text. In addition, ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece offer diverse approaches to the first canticle of the Divine Comedy, including Virgil's importance to Dante as a source for mythological, historical, and political material as well as for structuring his poetic vision; the language, symbols, and extended meanings of Hell; Dante's revision of the concepts of Limbo and the Harrowing of Hell; the figure of Francesca, representative of Eve, and how the Pilgrim participates in her sin; how understanding political and church history of the period enhances a reading of the poem; and the history of Dante's interpretation and reception in Italian cinema." -- Back cover |
Contents
translated by Mark Musa | 3 |
Textual Irony in the Inferno | 253 |
Dantes Beloved Yet Damned Virgil | 266 |
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