Dante:Paradise von Dante (englisch) Taschenbuch Buch
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Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise, to profess his faith, hope, and love before the Heavenly court. A bilingual text, classic illustrations by Gustave Dore, an appendix that … More...
Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise, to profess his faith, hope, and love before the Heavenly court. A bilingual text, classic illustrations by Gustave Dore, an appendix that reproduces Dante's key sources, and other features make this the definitive edition of Dante's ultimate masterwork. The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Paradise by Dante, Anthony Esolen, Gustave Dore A translation of "Paradise", with illustrations by Gustove Dore. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description "If there is any justice in the world of books, Esolen's will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come."-Robert Royal, CrisisIn this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise, to profess his faith, hope, and love before the Heavenly court. Completed shortly before his death, Paradise is the volume that perhaps best expresses Dante's spiritual philosophy about resurrection, redemption, and the nature of divinity. It also affords modern-day readers a clear window into late medieval perceptions about faith. A bilingual text, classic illustrations by Gustave Dore, an appendix that reproduces Dante's key sources, and other features make this the definitive edition of Dante's ultimate masterwork. Author Biography Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. He is the author of Peppers, a book of poetry, and his translations include Lucretius's De rerum natura and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, along with Dante's Inferno and Purgatory, published by the Modern Library.Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1256. He entered public life in 1295, later becoming one of the six governing magistrates of Florence. He repeatedly opposed the machinations of Pope Boniface VIII, who was attempting to place all of Tuscany under Papal rule, and in 1301 was banished from Florence. Dante would never again enter his native city, spending his remaining years with a series of patrons in various Italian courts. He completed The Divine Comedy shortly before his death in 1321. Gustave Dore (1832-83) was one of the most popular and prolific French illustrators of the mid 19th century. Excerpt from Book Canto One Dante and Beatrice are at the threshold of Heaven. She explains to him that it is the nature of the human soul to rise. The glory of the One who moves all things penetrates the universe with light, more radiant in one part and elsewhere less: I have been in that heaven He makes most bright,4 and seen things neither mind can hold nor tongue utter, when one descends from such great height, For as we near the One for whom we long,7 our intellects so plunge into the deep, memory cannot follow where we go. Nevertheless what small part I can keep10 of that holy kingdom treasured in my heart will now become the matter of my song. O good Apollo, for this last work of art,13 make me as fit a vessel of your power as you demand when you bestow the crown Of the beloved laurel. Till this hour16 one peak of twin Parnassus has sufficed, but if I am to enter the lists now I shall need both. Then surge into my breast19 and breathe your song, as when you drew the vain Marsyas from the sheath of his own limbs. Father, virtue divine, should you but deign22 that I make manifest a shadow of the blessed kingdom sealed upon my brain, At the foot of that tree whose wood you love25 you'll see me stand and crown my brows with green, made worthy by the subject, and by you. Poets and Caesars now so rarely glean28 those leaves to celebrate a victory (man's fault and shame, for our desires are mean), the Peneian branches must give birth to joy31 when any man should thirst for their high fame, in the glad heart of the Delphic deity. A little spark gives birth to a great flame.34 Better voices perhaps will follow mine, praying to hear what Cyrrha shall proclaim! By various spills of light the sun will shine37 dawning upon the world of men that die, but at the three-cross intersection of Four rings it rises in the company40 of a more favorable time of year, happier stars, to stamp this worldly clay With its most perfect seal. One hemisphere43 lay brightening in that stream and one grew dim, as it made morning there and evening here, When I saw Beatrice turn upon her left46 and look to Heaven to gaze into the sun: no eagle ever held a gaze so firm. As a reflecting ray will follow upon49 the first and in a glance, an instant, rise just like a pilgrim longing to turn home, So she instilled her gazingthrough my eyes52 into my powers of fancy, and I too stared at the sun more than our sight can bear. With our weak powers on earth one may not do55 what there one maythanks to the special place created as the proper home for man. Not long could I sustain the brilliant rays58 before they seemed to flash like sparks that play round steel still white-hot from the forge's blaze, And suddenly it seemed that day and day61 were fused, as if the One who wields the might adorned the heavens with a second sun. Into the everlasting wheels of light64 Beatrice gazed with silent constancy; on her I gazed, far from that central sight. Her countenance had the same effect in me67 as did the plant that Glaucus tasted when it made him share the godhood of the sea. To signify man's soaring beyond man70 words will not do: let my comparison suffice for them for whom the grace of God Reserves the experience. If I bore alone73 that part of me which you created last, O Love that steers the heavens, you surely know, For your light lifted me. And when the vast76 wheel you have made eternal by desire held me intent to hear the harmony You tune in all its parts, the sunlight-fire79 lit so much of the sky, no flooding stream or rain could ever fill so broad a lake. The newness of the sound, the swelling gleam82 lighted desire in me to learn their cause keener than any appetite I'd known. And she, who saw within me what I was,85 to still the troubled waters of my soul, opened her lips before I could inquire, And thus began: "You're making your mind dull88 with false imaginingyou don't perceive what you would see, if you could shake it off. You are not on the earth, as you believe.91 Lightning that flees its proper realm is not so swift as your returning to your own." I admit I was shorn of my first doubt94 by the brief words she flashed me with a smile, but in another net my feet were caught: "My first amazement is at peacebut still97 I am amazed that I should rise so high, beyond the lightness of the air and fire." She turned her eyes to me then with a sigh100 of pity, as a mother in distress whose child is ill and talks deliriously, So she made matters plain: "All things possess103 order amongst themselves: this order is the form that makes the world resemble God. Thence the high beings read the signs, the trace106 of that eternal Power who is the end for which the form is set in time and place. All natures in this order lean and tend109 each in distinctive manner to its Source, some to approach more near and others less Whence from their various ports all creatures move112 on the great sea of being, with each one ferried by instinct given from above. This is what makes the fire rise toward the moon;115 this, the prime mover of the mortal heart; this makes the heavy earth condense in o≠ Nor does this bow with target-cleaving art118 strike only things that lack intelligence, but beings made with intellect and love. The glorious world-ordaining providence121 forever stills the highest heaven with light, beyond the spinning of the swiftest sphere, And to that place as to our destined site124 we're speeded by the power of that cord shooting each arrow in its happy flight. Often it's true a form may not accord127 with the intent of him who works the art because the matter's deaf and won't respond: So, from this course, a creature may depart130 if it should have the power, despite the push, to swerve away and veer off from its start, And as you'll see a fall of lightning flash133 from the high clouds, so cheating pleasures skew that first urge, and they plunge it to the earth. No more amazement should it bring to you136 that you ascend, than if a mountain stream should tumble rushing to the plains below. But it would be a cause of just surprise139 if, free of every bar, you should remain like a still flame on earth, and not arise." Then to the heavens she turned her gaze again.142 Details ISBN0812977262 Short Title PARADISE-ML Pages 544 Language English Illustrator Gustave Dore ISBN-10 0812977262 ISBN-13 9780812977264 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 851.1 Year 2007 Imprint Modern Library Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Alternative 9789626346792 DOI 10.1604/9780812977264 Translator Anthony Esolen UK Release Date 2007-02-13 AU Release Date 2007-02-13 NZ Release Date 2007-02-13 US Release Date 2007-02-13 Birth 1939 Death 1847 Affiliation both Research Scientists, Batelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio Position both Research Scientists Qualifications PhD Author Gustave Dore Publisher Random House USA Inc Series The Divine Comedy Publication Date 2007-02-13 Illustrations BLACK-&-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS Audience General We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! 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