Book Description
Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante contains complete verse translations of Dante's two masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.

Translated and edited by Mark Musa.


Language Notes
Text: English, Italian (translation)


About the Author
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), stands alongside Homer and Shakespeare as one of the most important poets of the Western literary tradition.

Mark Musa, Distinguished Professor of French and Italian at Indiana University, is best known for his translations of Dante and the poetry of the Middle Ages.

ANNOTATION

The editor of The Portable Dante provides notes, a bibliography, a new introduction, and complete verse translations for two of Dante Alighieri's masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a passionate lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunciation. As all of these things, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur.