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2) The inferno
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English
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Publisher's description: Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically...
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English
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"'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. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom...
4) Paradise
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Third volume of Dante's Divine comedy.
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles--philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. He brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex web of family relationships for English readers, and shows the influence of local and regional politics on his writing."--Provided by publisher.
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Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Dante brings the legendary author--and the medieval Italy of his era-- to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time One of the world's most prominent physicists and fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. His bestselling books have introduced millions of readers to the wonders of modern physics and his singular perspective on the cosmos. This new collection of essays reveals a curious intellect always on the move. Rovelli...
12) ¡Qué ordenado!
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
A Dante, el tejón, el encantaba tener todo muy limpio y ordenado, pero se obsesiona tanto con el orden que lo que empieza por recoger hojas casi acaba siendo ¡la destrucción del bosque! ¿Se dara cuenta Dante de su error y empezara a ver las cosas de otro modo?
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
14) Gremlins
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a young bank teller inadvertently breaks the rules of Mogwai care, his new pet Gizmo multiplies into a bevy of mischievous brothers, who soon morph into malevolent scaly creatures.
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Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Dante is a demon slayer and bounty hunter with a demon heritage of his own that haunts his past. He's currently unemployed--and bored to death. Opportunity knocks in the form of a missing-child case, which his friend and manager, Enzo, offers him. But a four-million-dollar reward, an unexpected demon attack and a little girl named Alice all conspire to send Dante through the looking glass on a nightmarish adventure beyond his wildest imagination"--Cover...
17) Traffik
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
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Series
Caselli and Torre novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the wildly inventive mind of thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, whose first novel featuring investigators Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, Kill the Father, was an international bestseller, comes the ingenious second novel in the series, Kill the Angel. In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the city's main station with a carriage full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. Subsequently,...
20) Dance flick
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Sweet, innocent Megan's ballet dreams are shattered when she is forced to attend an inner-city high school where she meets Thomas, a young hip-hop dancer from the wrong side of the tracks. With a new crew of friends, this suburban girl with no street 'cred,' has to step up her game and achieve her dreams in the mother of all dance-offs.
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