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  La Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno / Il Purgatorio / Paradiso [THREE VOLUME SET] [IN HEBREW].  
  Traduzione Ebraica di Immanuel Olsvanger.  

 
Author Dante Alighieri / Olsvanger, Immanuel [Tr.]
Place of Publication Jerusalem
Publication Name Tarshish Books
Year 1956 / 1953
Language(s) Hebrew
Description
RARE COMPLETE HEBREW TRANSLATION of "The Divine Comedy" - a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (c.1265-1321), begun c. 1308 and completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. This first complete translation of "The Divine Comedy" into Hebrew was carried out by Immanuel Olsvanger (1888-1961) - an eminent Jewish folklorist, translator, journalist and Zionist activist. Aside "The Divine Comedy" he has translated Bocaccio`s `Decameron`, Goethe`s poetry, Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit, Japanese poetry, and many other works into Hebrew, and published a poem book with his own Hebrew poems. This edition contains b&w illustrations. [ALL VOLUMES]: 195x125mm. [247] + [236] + [261] pages. Quarter-cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt front cover and spine. Jacket yellowing and slightly stained. Jacket edges and corners tattered and slightly chipped. Jacket spine browning and stained. Spine edges slightly bumped. Whitepages age-stained. Text block edges and pages yellowing. [VOL.I]: Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine age-stained. [VOL.III]: Spine slightly age-stained/dirty. [VOLS.II&III]: Jacket partly torn and taped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare complete Hebrew translation of one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature is in good condition.
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Catalog Index Number MS 19 35

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