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The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Machiavelli Publisher Comments Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets... (read more) List Price $7.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Dante by Dante Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Purgatorio #2: The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatory by Dante About the Author Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Publisher Comments An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri and John Ciardi Publisher Comments Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Divine Comedy Inferno by Dante/musa Publisher Comments This vigorous translation of the poet's journey through the circles of hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prince and the Discourses (Modern Library College Editions) by Machiavelli Publisher Comments Translated by Luigi Ricci, Revised by E.R.P. Vincent, Introduction by Max Lerner... (read more) List Price $9.70 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Bantam Classics) by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Poetry of Petrarch by Petrarch Publisher Comments “David Youngs version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the Wests crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.” --Harold Bloom Ineffable sweetness, bold... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dante's Divine Comedy #2: Purgatory by Dante Publisher Comments This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Life by Dante and Dante Gabriel Rossetti Publisher Comments The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Inferno by Dante Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-694) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso. Part 1: Text (Divine Comedy) by Dante Publisher Comments Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Purgatorio (Signet Classics) by Dante Publisher Comments O glory of the Latins, said he, through whom our language showed what it could do, O honor eternal of the place wherefrom I was, what merit or what grace shows thee to me? If I am worthy to hear thy words, tell me if thou comest from Hell, and from what... (read more) Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Hell by Dante Publisher Comments Translated with an introduction by Dorothy L... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri #0001: Inferno by Dante Publisher Comments This new translation 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 Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Companion To Dante (2ND 07 Edition) by Rachel Jacoff Publisher Comments This book provides an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging. Fifteen specially-commissioned essays by distinguished scholars provide background information and up-to-date critical perspectives on Dante's life and work, focusing... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Decameron: A New Translation: 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Boccaccio Publisher Comments The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the author's themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture... (read more) List Price $20.60 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inferno (54 Edition) by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments The immortal drama of a journey through Hell. Belonging in the immortal company of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Inferno of Dante Alighieri (02 Edition) by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments 'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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