Virgil

Allen Mandelbaum

A Verse Translation

The Aeneid of Virgil

An extensive glossary identifying the numerous historical and mythical allusions accompanies this verse translation

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio

Dante

Inferno

Charles Ross

Anthony Oldcorn

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

Lectura Dantis

Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso

Charles Stanley Ross

The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before." This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

The Selecteg Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo

Homer

A New Verse Translation

The Odyssey of Homer

This new critical volume contains commentary on the 'Purgatorio' by 33 international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic.

Purgatorio

Journeyman

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti Tr. and Edited by Allen Mandelbaum

The Savantasse of Montparnasse

Poetry. Edited by Henry Weinfield. Allen Mandelbaum (1926-2011), best known for his award-winning translations of Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divina Commedia, Homer's Odyssey, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, was also a formidable poet. This volume, handsomely designed by Barry Moser, Mandelbaum's longtime illustrator, was produced for Moser's Pennyroyal Press by the Bridgeport National Bookbindery (Agawam, Massachusetts) in 300 numbered copies. It features an original pencil portrait of the author by Moser on the frontispiece. The book brings together the finest of the poems contained in the four collections published during the poet's lifetime as well as poems published here for the first time. In the landscape of twentieth-century American poetry, Mandelbaum's voice is a unique, original, and compelling one.

The Call of the Wild

Giuseppe UNGARETTI

Life of a Man. A Version with Introduction by Allen Mandelbaum

Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets. From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen. These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World.

Three Centuries of American Poetry

Marked by allusion, erudition, and lyricism, Mandelbaum's poems relating the story of the town of Chelm are reflections and explorations of the Jewish tradition

Allen Mandelbaum

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