Paradiso – Dante
Robert & Jean Hollander (tran)
NF/NF

For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Paradiso by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander. First Edition stated, 2007 Doubleday. First Printing with no subsequent printing.

The book is in Near Fine condition with spotless boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price and two large creases on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and the price intact on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

Paradiso , the final section of Dante Alighieri’s epic theological poem La Divina Commedia, is one of the indispensable works of the Western literary canon.

Robert and Jean Hollander’s verse translation with facing-page Italian offers the dual virtues of maximum fidelity to Dante’s text with the feeling necessary to give the English reader a sense of the work’s poetic greatness in Italian. And since Robert Hollander’s achievements as a Dante scholar are unsurpassed in the English-speaking world, the commentaries that accompany each canto offer superb guidance in comprehension and interpretation. This translation is also the text of the Princeton Dante Project Web site, an ambitious online project that offers a multimedia version of the Divine Comedy and links to other Dante Web sites. On every count, then, this edition of Paradiso is likely to be a touchstone for generations to come, and it completes one of the great projects of literary translation and scholarship of our time.