The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics)

基本信息

Format Paperback | 752 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 32mm | 511g

Publication date 25 Mar 2014

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Language English

Illustrations note Illustrations, maps

ISBN10 0141197498

ISBN13 9780141197494

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《神曲（意大利语：Divina Commedia，英语：Divine Comedy）》，是著名意大利诗人但丁·阿利盖利（Dante Alighieri，c.1265–1321）创作的长诗。此为罗宾·柯克帕特里克(Robin Kirkpatrick)译本。

《神曲》写于1307年至1321年，这部作品作者通过与地狱、炼狱以及天堂中各种著名人物的对话，反映出中古文化领域的成就和一些重大的问题，带有“百科全书”性质，从中也可隐约窥见文艺复兴时期人文主义思想的曙光。

全诗为三部分：《地狱（Inferno）》、《炼狱（Purgatorio）》和《天堂（Paradiso）》，以长诗的形式，叙述了但丁在“人生的中途”所做的一个梦，以此来谴责教会的统治，但仍然未摆脱基督教神学的观点。

在这部长达一万四千余行的史诗中，但丁坚决反对中世纪的蒙昧主义，表达了执着地追求真理的思想，对欧洲后世的诗歌创作有极其深远的影响。

《神曲》原名《喜剧》，薄伽丘在《但丁传》中为了表示对诗人的崇敬，给这部作品冠以“神圣的”称谓。后来的版本便以《神圣的喜剧》为书名。中译本通称《神曲》。

Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, tracing Dante's journey from Hell to Purgatory and finally Paradise, is published here for the first time in a single volume. The volume includes a new introduction, notes, maps and diagrams, and is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader who is coming to the great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time. 

The Divine Comedydescribes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. 

'The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism... likely to be the best modern version of Dante' - Bernard O'Donoghue

'The most moving lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges

'This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation - a deeply-informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read' - Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

Individual editions of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - are also available in Penguin Classics, and include Dante's Italian printed alongside the English text. 

作者简介

但丁于1265年出生于佛罗伦萨的一个贵族家庭。他的生活被政治职责和诗歌划分开来，其中*著名的是他与比斯·波提纳里(他称她为比阿特丽斯)的会面，包括《新生》(La Vita Nuova)和《神曲》(the Divine Comedy)。他于1321年死于拉文纳。

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties and poetry, the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari, whom he called Beatrice,including La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. He died in Ravenna in 1321.

罗宾·柯克帕特里克是一位诗人，并广泛出版了《但丁学者》一书。曾在香港、都柏林、剑桥等地教授但丁的《神曲》课程，曾任鲁宾逊学院院士、意大利和英国文学教授。

Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet and widely-published Dante scholar. He has taught courses on Dante's Divine Comedy in Hong Kong, Dublin, and Cambridge where is Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures.