La Divina Commedia Series

This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet’s vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary.

A verse translation of Dante’s awe-inspiring poem of penance and hope, masterfully translated by award-winning professor Allen Mandelbaum

“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.”—Christian Science Monitor

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. This edition includes exclusive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.