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Purgatorio

By Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum

By Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum

By Dante Alighieri
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum

By Dante Alighieri
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum

Category: Fiction Classics | Spiritual Fiction

Category: Fiction Classics | Spiritual Fiction

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Mass Market Paperback $6.95

Dec 01, 1983 | 448 Pages

Ebook $5.99

Jun 14, 2016

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    About Purgatorio

    This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante’s great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.

    About Purgatorio

    "The enjoyment of The Divine Comedy is a continuous process," observed T.S. Eliot.  "It is not necessary to understand the meaning first to enjoy the poetry…our enjoyment of the poetry makes us want to understand the meaning."  
    Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri’s all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife.  In the Purgatorio, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in continuation of his difficult ascent to purity.

    "The clean force of the original comes through with astonishing success," said poet and translator Dudley Fitts in praise of John Ciardi’s rendition of the Purgatorio.  "Dante cannot speak in English, perhaps; but Ciardi has given us the next best thing–a credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary guards of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance."

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    About Dante

    Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. His early poetry falls into the tradition of love poetry that passed from the Provencal to such Italian poets as Guido Cavalcanti, Dante’s friend and mentor. Dante’s first major work is… More about Dante

    About Dante Alighieri

    Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties and poetry, the most famous of which – The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova – was inspired by… More about Dante Alighieri

    Product Details

    Mass Market Paperback | $6.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Dec 01, 1983 | 448 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553213447

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jun 14, 2016 | ISBN 9780553900552

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    Praise

    "The English Dante of choice."–Hugh Kenner.

    "Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."–Robert Fagles, Princeton University.

    "Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum’s Dante will stand high among modern translations."–The Christian Science Monitor

    "Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."
    —Book Review Digest

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