The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Volume 2: Purgatorio

by Durling, Robert M.; Durling, Robert M.; Martinez, Ronald L.

• ISBN13: 9780195087413
• ISBN10: 0195087410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in theregaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness toDante's syntax. Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno.Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four usefulindexes. Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem.

Author Biography

Robert M. Durling is Professor Emeritus of English and Italian Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ronald L. Martinez is Professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota. Their works together include Dante's Inferno and Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's "Rime petrose."
Robert Turner has been a professional illustrator for more than 20 years. He works at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	3	(15)
PURGATORIO
Canto 1	18	(16)
Notes to Canto 1	26	(8)
Canto 2	34	(14)
Notes to Canto 2	42	(6)
Canto 3	48	(16)
Notes to Canto 3	56	(8)
Canto 4	64	(14)
Notes to Canto 4	72	(6)
Canto 5	78	(14)
Notes to Canto 5	86	(6)
Canto 6	92	(18)
Notes to Canto 6	102	(8)
Canto 7	110	(16)
Notes to Canto 7	118	(8)
Canto 8	126	(16)
Notes to Canto 8	134	(8)
Canto 9	142	(16)
Notes to Canto 9	150	(8)
Canto 10	158	(14)
Notes to Canto 10	166	(6)
Canto 11	172	(16)
Notes to Canto 11	180	(8)
Canto 12	188	(16)
Notes to Canto 12	196	(8)
Canto 13	204	(18)
Notes to Canto 13	214	(8)
Canto 14	222	(20)
Notes to Canto 14	232	(10)
Canto 15	242	(16)
Notes to Canto 15	250	(8)
Canto 16	258	(18)
Notes to Canto 16	266	(10)
Canto 17	276	(16)
Notes to Canto 17	284	(8)
Canto 18	292	(16)
Notes to Canto 18	300	(8)
Canto 19	308	(18)
Notes to Canto 19	316	(10)
Canto 20	326	(20)
Notes to Canto 20	336	(10)
Canto 21	346	(16)
Notes to Canto 21	354	(8)
Canto 22	362	(20)
Notes to Canto 22	372	(10)
Canto 23	382	(18)
Notes to Canto 23	390	(10)
Canto 24	400	(20)
Notes to Canto 24	410	(10)
Canto 25	420	(18)
Notes to Canto 25	428	(10)
Canto 26	438	(18)
Notes to Canto 26	446	(10)
Canto 27	456	(18)
Notes to Canto 27	464	(10)
Canto 28	474	(18)
Notes to Canto 28	482	(10)
Canto 29	492	(18)
Notes to Canto 29	502	(8)
Canto 30	510	(20)
Notes to Canto 30	518	(12)
Canto 31	530	(18)
Notes to Canto 31	538	(10)
Canto 32	548	(18)
Notes to Canto 32	558	(8)
Canto 33	566	(18)
Notes to Canto 33	574	(10)
Vergil, Eclogue IV	584	(4)
Guido Cavalcanti's ``Pastorella,''	588	(39)
Additional Notes
Cato of Utica (Canto 1)	591	(2)
The Meeting with Casella (Canto 2)	593	(1)
Belacqua and the Horizons of Purgatory	594	(3)
Vergil's Palinurus in Purgatorio and the Rudderless Ship of State (Canto 6)	597	(3)
The Canonical Hours; Compline (Canto 8)	600	(3)
The Terrace of Pride: i. Structure and Rationale (Cantos 10-12)	603	(3)
The Terrace of Pride: ii. The Theme of Art (Cantos 10-12)	606	(2)
San Miniato al Monte and Dante's Pride of Workmanship (Canto 12)	608	(2)
Number, Light, Motion, and Degree at the Center of the Comedy	610	(2)
Dante and Forese (Cantos 23-24)	612	(2)
Embryology and Heredity (Canto 25)	614	(3)
The Virtues of the Virgin Mary (After Canto 27)	617	(1)
Dante and Ovid's Pyramus (Canto 27)	618	(2)
Virgil and the Fourth Eclogue (Canto 30)	620	(3)
Rolling Out the Apocalypse (Cantos 29-33)	623	(4)
Textual Variants	627	(4)
Bibliography	631	(26)
Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Foreign Words Discussed in the Notes	657	(4)
Index of Passages Cited in the Notes	661	(15)
Index of Proper Names in the Notes	676	(23)
Index of Proper Names in the Text and Translation	699