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, and the Franciscans in Florence, and at the university in Bologna. In 1295 he entered Florentine politics and in the summer of 1300 he became one of the six governing Priors of Florence. In 1301, the political situation forced Dante and his party into exile. For the rest of his life he wandered through Italy, perhaps studied at Paris, while depending for refuge on the generosity of various nobles. He continued to write and at some point late in life he took asylum in Ravenna where he completed the Divine Commedia and died, much honoured, in 1321.

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.


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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  • 小鹿想念书
    its political imagination within is a passion close to obsession. 09-14
  • Caesura
    特别不待见这个翻译。读起来特别别扭02-09
  • Shany
    英文翻译太难啃,导致有的地方理解有些偏差。不过从文学都能读出罗马天主教会在人们心中有多么可怕,给他们洗脑有多厉害,中世纪的人心中是如何的不安与恐惧,如何不相信希望的力量。[Comment on Inferno exclusively]09-22
  • kelsiii
    Sigh............01-02
  • 刘皓
    艾伦·曼德尔鲍姆 Allen Mandelbaum 的英译本是众多译本中更严谨负责的。在句式和重要字词上比较负责,不会简单处理了之,功夫过硬。2000年,因其《神曲》的英译本荣获意大利佛罗伦萨市颁发的荣誉金质奖章。英文版首选!02-09

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