American Dante Bibliography for 1969.Pdf
American Dante Bibliography for 1969 Anthony L. Pellegrini This bibliography is intended to include the Dante translations published in this country in 1969, and all Dante studies and reviews published in 1969 that are in any sense American. The latter criterion is construed to include foreign reviews of American publications pertaining to Dante. Translations “Al poco giorno . / To the Scant Day.” Translated by Joseph De Grazia III. In Le parole e le idee, XI, no. 12 (1969), 112-113. The verse translation, facing the Italian text, observes the original rhyme-scheme. [Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore (Vita Nuova, Canzone I)] “Two Medieval Poems in Translation, with an Introduction,” by Robert S. Dupree. In Arlington Quarterly, II, no. I (1969), 22-31. Italian text followed by a “twentieth-century version” in the rhyme-scheme of the original, done out of dissatisfaction with the translation by D.G. Rossetti. (The second poem is Villon’s Ballade des dames du temps jadis.) The Divine Comedy. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin and illustrated by Leonard Baskin. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. 3 v. boxed. illus. This deluxe edition comes with Professor Bergin’s well-known translation in blank verse, originally prepared for the “Crofts Classics,” and 120 full-page, black-and-white washed line drawings by the contemporary artist Leonard Baskin. The work was printed in the type-face “Dante,” designed by Giovanni Mardersteig in 1953-54, at the fine printing house Stamperia Valdonega of Verona. The special paper, “Antiqua,” is also of Italian manufacture, while the illustrations were reproduced by Meriden Gravure of Meriden, Connecticut.
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