Download or read book Dante s Ballad written by Eduardo Gonzalez Viana and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ñRemember that weÍre in the U.S.,î Dante Celestino is told when his daughter Emmita runs away. Friends and neighbors warn him that in the United States itÍs not considered so unusual for a fifteen-year-old girl to run away. But Dante had counseled Emmita to date only Spanish-speaking Hispanic boys, and never anyone who joins gangs or deals drugs. Yet she ignores her fatherÍs advice and„right in the middle of her quinceaÐera„runs away with a tattooed Latino who doesnÍt speak Spanish and rides a lowrider motorcycle. And to complicate matters, Dante is in the U.S. illegally, making it difficult to report the girlÍs disappearance to the police. So begins DanteÍs odyssey. Accompanied by a lame donkey named Virgilio and the voice of his dead wife, he sets out for Las Vegas, where EmmitaÍs boyfriend„or abductor, as Dante considers him„supposedly lives. On a journey filled with the joy of music and the pain of flashbacks from his small-town life and marital bliss in Mexico, Dante encounters a series of eccentric characters: Josefino and Mariana, known to radio listeners as the Noble Couple, who change their listenersÍ luck in an instant; Juan Pablo, a young man who uses his computer genius to rob a Las Vegas casino so he can pay for his college education; and the Pilgrim, a famous balladeer who has crossed the border via underground tunnels so many times that even years later he smells faintly of dirt and death. In this bittersweet tour de force originally published in Spanish as El Corrido de Dante, the First and Third Worlds join hands, and Mexican pueblo life and Internet post-modernity dance together in one of the most memorable fables to shed light on issues such as immigration, cultural assimilation, and the future of the United States with its ever-increasing Latino population.

Download or read book The vita nuova and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dante s Lyric Poems written by Dante Alighieri and published by Legas / Gaetano Cipolla. This book was released on 1999 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Inferno of Dante Alighieri written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pitiful Song of Dante written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ladies of Dante s Lyrics written by Charles Hall Grandgent and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dante s Vita Nuova New Edition written by Dante Alighieri and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1973-04-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fresh, new version of a 1962 translation that has had enormous popularity in comparative literature classes. The Vita Nuova (the New Life) is a small book which relates in prose and often very beautiful verse the story of the youthful Dante's love for Beatrice. The esay which follows the translation provides new insights into this puzzling thirteenth-century work. Musa regards Dante's intention in this so-called "Book of Memory" as a cruel and comic commentary on the youthful lover. He argues that Dante, using the tradition of love poetry current in his time, points up the foolishness and shallowness of his protagonist, a self-centered and self-pitying youth who only occasionally in the progress of his suffering catches even a glimpse of the true nature of Love or his beloved. "The sensitive man who would realize a man's destiny must ruthlessly cut out of his heart the canker at its center [i.e. self-pity], the canker that the heart instinctively tends to cultivate." According to Musa, this is one of Dante's central ideas. Dante scholars, libraries, and students of the Italian classics will welcome this distinguished translation and its provocative commentary"--Back cover.

Download or read book The Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri Including the Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito Italian and English written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dante s Vita Nuova written by Dante Alighieri and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1973-04-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love. ". . . the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable. . . . This present work offers English readers a lengthy appraisal which should figure in future scholarly discussions." —Choice

Download or read book Dante s Poem of Light written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante’s Poem of Light: Conversing with Dante in Dream {1} is the beginning part of a fictional narrative trilogy in the tercet stanza. It unfolds an imaginary conversation between two characters in a dream: a sincere heathen dreamer and the spirit of his revered poet, Dante (1265- 1321), the author of The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy of Dante inspired the present work to follow its form and substance as much as it is possible by a novice. The dreamer’s Tale One consists of thirteen episodes, each called Song (similar to Dante’s Canto): Song 1: Dante and a Dreamer Song 2: Conception of the Divine Comedy Song 3: Poetic Transfiguration Song 4: The Aeneid of Vergil: Book Six Song 5: On the Nature of Things by Lucretius Song 6: The Myth of Er in The Republic of Plato Song 7: The Epic of Astral Messenger Er-Dante Song 8: Enigma of the Limbo Song 9: Invention of Religions by Theocracies Song 10: Beholding God as a Simple Light Song 11: With Beatrice in the Paradise Song 12: Farewell between Beatrice and Dante Song 13: Confession of the Dreamer

Download or read book The Ladies of Dante s Lyrics written by Charles Hall Grandgent and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The poetry of Dante G Rossetti written by Florence S. Boos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canzoniere of Dante a Contribution to Its Critical Edition written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Life of Dante Alighieri written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Life of Dante Alighieri Translated with Essays and Notes by Charles Eliot Norton written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dante and His Circle written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divine Comedy marked nothing less than the arrival of vernacular Italian as a literary language--and Dante's book is still considered Italy's greatest literary achievement. Its highly idiomatic verse, however, has long bedeviled English-language translators. Burton Raffel, whose translation of Don Quixote is acclaimed for making Cervantes more accessible to the modern generation, in this new translation for Northwestern World Classics, shows exciting new directions, preserving both the lyricism of the original and its incisive meaning. First-time readers and longtime fans of "the supreme poet" alike will cherish this clear and lyrical rendering of one of world literature's masterpieces. The Divine Comedy depicts the journey of Dante the pilgrim, guided by the poet Virgil and the love of his life, Beatrice, as he moves through the stages of his life and world. Raffel's single-volume translation of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso follows the complete journey of a spiritual pilgrim who struggles from the depths of the inferno to the heights of paradise. In the former Dante meets many of his political enemies, suffering the punishments that match their crimes in life. And in the ninth circle of Hell, Lucifer--the ultimate traitor--is shown chewing on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot, three others who committed horrendous acts of treason in the classical and early Jewish worlds. Dante's evocative description of Heaven is a sort of homecoming for the exiled poet. Dante's epic poem challenged the political and religious hierarchy of his time and remains a powerful and universal expression of human desires, strivings, and shortcomings.