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A vita nuova —the title of Dante's earlier collection of poems dedicated to his beloved Beatrice.
Booking a Journey Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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Young-adult YA literature didn't exist when I was in public school, so we read "real" literature starting with Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when I was in the fifth grade, moving on to William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and Dante's "Inferno" when I was a senior in high school.
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I've been scouring the web for people's opinions on the best translations of the greatest epics: Homer's Odyssey, Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Divina Commedia.
The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Dante's Purgatorio, translated by W.S. Merwin (2000).
The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Dante's Inferno, translated by Robert Pinsky (1995).
The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Some classic staples of high school literature curricula such as The Odyssey of Homer, Dante's Inferno and Golding's Lord of the Flies, depict the same graphic violence California sought to ban and punish when it pops up in the form of video games.
Roy S. Gutterman: Violent Video Games and the First Amendment Roy S. Gutterman 2011
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A noted Italian actress, her blond hair lifted by a light breeze, read from Dante's original text.
Beach Bummed Robery Pinsky 2011
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Some classic staples of high school literature curricula such as The Odyssey of Homer, Dante's Inferno and Golding's Lord of the Flies, depict the same graphic violence California sought to ban and punish when it pops up in the form of video games.
Roy S. Gutterman: Violent Video Games and the First Amendment Roy S. Gutterman 2011
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For instance, a few summers ago the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, a medieval building brilliantly re-conceived as a museum by architect Carlo Scarpa, mounted a show of Michael Mazur's great black-and-white monotype illustrations for my translation of Dante's Inferno.
Beach Bummed Robery Pinsky 2011
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Cause it's gotta be better than Dante's Cove, which is (albeit wonderfully) awful.
Indie vs Hollywood Hal Duncan 2010
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