内容简介

This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.

作者简介

Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence. His family, of minor nobility, was not wealthy nor especially distinguished; his mother died when he was a child, his father before 1283. At about the age of 20 he married Gemma Donati, by whom he had three children. Little is known of Dante's formal education-it is likely to have included study with the Dominicans, the Augustinians...

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精彩摘录

我的老师说：“你现在应当避开懒惰，因为一个人坐在绒毯之上，困在绸被之下，决定不会成名的。无声无臭度一生，好比空中烟，水面泡，他在世上的痕迹顷刻就消灭了。所以，你要站起来，用你的精神，克服你的气喘。假使精神不跟着肉体堕落，那么他可以战胜一切艰难。你要爬的梯子还长呢，就是离开了此地也不算完结。假使你明白我的话，那么快些行动吧，对于你是有益处的。”于是我站了起来，表示了我勇敢的气概，我说：“走吧！我现在有力量了，有信心了。”我们走上岩石，比以前的更加崎岖、狭隘、峻峭、难于行走。我一头走一头说话，用以遮盖我的畏怯。

——引自第85页

由我进入愁苦之城由我进入永劫之苦由我进入万劫不复的人群中正义推动了崇高的造物主神圣的力量最高的智慧本原的爱创造了我在我以前未有造物除了永久存在的以外而我也将永世长存进来的人们你们必须把一切希望抛开

——引自第15页