books about: dante     books:       The Master of Verona35 reviews David Blixt St. Martin's Press, 2007 Captivating and Inspired: You will love this book! When I started reading this book, two things were apparent from the get go: the author of this book knows what he is talking about and this will be a book I will not want to put down! I have been a historical fiction reader since the second grade and have read many complex and heavy plots in this genre since that time. I think that any reader of historical fiction knows how hard it can be to keep ...             Dante: Inferno: Translated Into English With Notes And Commentary By Frank Salvidio6 reviews Frank Salvidio iUniverse, Inc., 2007 Lavoro eccellente This is an outstanding translation. It is faithful to the text but expressed in easily digestible English. Our undergraduates will finally be treated to Dante in palatable form.             The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: The Paradiso (Divine Comedy)7 reviews Dante Alighieri Signet, 1970 [STANDING OVATION] Travel to the most light-forbidden spot on Earth. Wait for night to fall. . . Look up at the sky. . . and count the stars. That's how many stars I'd give John Ciardi's wonderful translation of Dante's Paradiso (indeed, the whole trilogy, but especially this)! When reading this book it's almost impossible I'd say to not feel the same sense of awe as Dante does as he beholds the ...             Insider's Guide to Venture Capital, 200211 reviews Dante Fichera Prima Lifestyles, 2001 Comments from the Author My name is Dante Fichera and I'm the author of this book. I'm not only going to write a review of my book but also write about the history of why I committed four years of my life to this project. Four years ago while I was working in public accounting as an auditor (mostly auditing VC funds), I frequently met entrepreneurs that did not know how or where to find venture capital. Since I knew ...             John Carradine: The Films10 reviews Tom Weaver McFarland, 2008 Superb John Carradine's career spanned six decades and films thatranged from acclaimed classics (The Grapes of Wrath) to undisputedstinkers (can anyone say anything positive about Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula?). In John Carradine: The Films, author Tom Weaver deftly documents each and every film of the multi-talented actor. Complete cast and credits listings, synopsis and author commentarty for each film ...             The Hood14 reviews Dante Clarke; Ebony Stroman Ebandte, 2004 The Hood***** This book gets the five star rating with 5 meaning one of the best books I've ever read. Congratulations Ebony, this book had all the action & drama that I love. Glamour Coast2Coast Readers Online Book Club             The Pure Life8 reviews Dante Paradiso Xlibris Corporation, 2001 Dante Paradiso's The Pure Life: True Colors Facing the next steps after the crescendo of his last days of college and graduation, a vague feeling of being dumped when no longer paying tuition, and a certain Romantic nostalgia for the fast-receding past, native New Yorker Jack Paradise heads for the Pacific Northwest to do trail work in the redwood forests with the California Conservation Corps (CCC). In Jack's story of The Pure Life, ...             Wild Nights6 reviews Kate Douglas, Sharon Page, ... Aphrodisia, 2006 Doesn't Get Much Hotter! This book was so hot I had to keep iced tea beside the bed. My husband said thank you. All three stories will make you sweat.             History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Chronology)9 reviews Anatoly Fomenko Delamere Resources LLC, 2005 Prescient St Augustine? We can so far divide the New Chronology into the following three parts: a) The verifiable theory that proves consensual chronology wrong with the aid of astronomy, statistics and mathematics; b) The new chronology hypothesis based on a new understanding of known historical facts and the most likely logical explanation of the most obvious inconsistencies inherent in the official version of ...             Inferno: The Divine Comedy (Bantam Classics)9 reviews Dante Alighieri Topeka Bindery, 1999 Superior Edition of "Inferno" Available in English I've read a couple of editions of Dante's "The Divine Comedy," but as far as the "Inferno/Hell" part of the trilogy is concerned, this is the only one I've read for the last half decade. Alex Mandelbaum, then of the City University of New York, has given us a translation in English that is modern, yet retains the structure that lends the regal, somewhat alien feel of Alighieri's poetry. He ...             Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise5 reviews Dante Alighieri Chartwell Books, 2006 dante, longfellow and dore' this is a beautiful book and contains all three volumes of the divine comedy. the longfellow translation is very clear and readable and i like the fact that he didn't try to reproduce the rhyme. the language is only slightly outdated in places, but i don't mind that since it is a very old poem and the slightly formal language gives it a classic feel. the original woodcut illustrations are ...             Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's " Divine Comedy "5 reviews Hein-Th. Schulze Altcappenberg Royal Academy of Arts, 2000 Divine Botticelli This is an extraordinary book. It's like finding a rare and beautiful volume in an antiquarian bookstore. The book consists of almost a hundred drawings by Botticelli, made around 1500 to illustrate Dante's Divine Comedy of 1300. The drawings are marvelous. The devils and monsters are rather tame by modern standards but the thousands of individual characters are beautifully drawn and are easily ...             Inferno (Modern Library Series) - English translation5 reviews Dante Modern Library, 1996 Ciardi's translation is truly striking Ciardi's translation of Dante's Inferno is one of the very best. Its major strength is the intensity and power of its language. Although the translation is now more than fifty years old, it remains fresh, unencumbered by archaisms. Ciardi is a poet and it shows. I found myself more stunned by the horrors of hell in this translation than any other I've seen. Chills ran down my spine as I read ...             Purgatorio (Bantam Classics)5 reviews Dante Alighieri Bantam Classics, 1984 The Comedy Continues... For those who are unaware, Purgatorio is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy. After reading the Inferno, this book continues Dante's journey. Similar to the Inferno, Dante is accompanied by his guide, the great poet, Virgil. Also similar to the inferno, the two have to travel through different levels of this part of the afterlife and once again encounter the ironic tourtures faces by ...             The Divine Comedy: Paradise5 reviews Dante Alighieri American Classical College Press, 1985 Wonderful, Informative, Scary Story My interest in classic literature did not arise until recently. I read many reviews which indicated that people with this such interest absolutely MUST read Dante's Inferno. With that hefty weight upon my "newbie" shoulders I decided to undergo the journey that so many others have made over the last 700 years. As it turns out, Mark Musa's translation of Inferno is fantastic. Each chapter begins ...             The life of Dante4 reviews Giovanni Boccaccio Produced by hand at The Allen Press, 1992 When a son of Florence writes about another son of Florence "The Life of Dante", by Giovanni Boccaccio, is aptly described in the introduction by J.G. Nichols, at the beginning of this edition, as the "first modern literary biography", which is true, to some extent. Yet, in a time when a string of biographies written on more or less famous people seems to have, as only purpose, the crude expositions of mildly interesting (if at all) juicy tidbits, and ...             Simply Rich: 28 Simple Ways to Bring More Richness into Your Life Everyday5 reviews Dante Monique Pirouz Modern Living Media, 2003 Simply Rich is magnificently rich The author brings a richness to everyday life. What I like best is that someof the simple things she recommends, I already do. Anyone can follow this very well-written book. Wouldn't all our lives be so much more worthwhile if we just followed 14 of the simple ways, and truly rich if we followed them all. Very good job.             Tides Must Turn5 reviews Gaynor Hensman Trafford Publishing, 2004 The best book I have read for ages. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel which I was unable to put down. I read it in two days and felt both sadness and hope at the end. All the characters are believable and the storyline has a twist towards the end that I was totally unprepared for. I felt that the chapters in Spain were very well observed and I especially enjoyed the school trip to Barcelona. Gaynor Hensman skillfully recreated the ...             Saban and the Ancient: Book One of the Transformation5 reviews Dante Amodeo High-Pitched Hum Publishing, 2006 Great Book -- Smart and Funny I was pleasantly surprised that such an action packed book also explored the relationships between friends and more-than-friends (and wasn't too sappy). The characters were also very likeable. The dialogue sounded the way young adults actually talk, which a lot of writers screw up, and a lot of it was really funny. I also liked that it wasn't full of sex and profanity. Anybody that likes ...             The Divine Comedy Part 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Dante Alighieri Penguin Classics, 1962 Hame one cannot give 6 stars... This is not the most up - to - date translation: however, it is one of the more worthy bits of the history that has grown up around the Comedy, and its perspective is still of practical use. (She actually tries to avoid Freud, for example). Her misunderstandings are ones we can overlook, and she could even help to correct any new ones (not that I do not have full faith in our, er, "currentness", ...              search for books ancient, botticelli, capital, carradine, chronology, classics, comedy, commentary, divine, drawings, english, everyday, fiction, history, inferno, insider, library, paradise, paradiso, penguin, purgatorio, purgatory, richness, salvidio, science, transformation, translated, translation, venture, volume books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Manga Cookbook leave a comment home  impressum - about us