Lectura Dantis : Purgatorio

430 Pages·2008·2.56 MB·English

by  Oldcorn

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The University of California Press
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The second volume of the California Lectura Dantis
draws on a wide range of international scholar-critics.
Each contributor presents his or her own reading, in essay form,
of a canto of the Purgatorio.The Infernoand forthcoming Paradisovolumes
follow the same format, providing the long-awaited companion
to the three volumes of Allen Mandelbaum’s verse translations,
with facing Italian text, of The Divine Comedy.
ADVISORY BOARD
Ignazio Baldelli
University of Rome
Teodolinda Barolini
Columbia University
Charles T. Davis
Tulane University
Giuseppe Di Scipio
Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Cecil Grayson
Oxford University
Emilio Pasquini
University of Bologna
Lea Ritter Santini
University of Münster
John A. Scott
University of Western Australia
Lectura Dantis

Lectura Dantis
Purgatorio
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Allen Mandelbaum’s translation ofPurgatorio,in 1982.
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lectura Dantis : Purgatorio / edited by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony
Oldcorn, Charles Ross.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-520-25055-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-520-25056-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321. Purgatorio. I. Mandelbaum, Allen,
1926– II. Oldcorn, Anthony. III. Ross, Charles.
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This volume of the
California Lectura Dantis
is dedicated to our indispensable
colleague and peerless editor of the text
of Dante’s
Divine Comedy,
the late
GIORGIO PETROCCHI