Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation - Softcover

Dante Alighieri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375708391 ISBN 13: 9780375708398

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

Synopsis

An important new translation of the second section of Dante's great masterwork, created by the poet-author of The River Sound and The Folding Cliffs, follows the narrator's odyssey, guided by the poet Virgil and inspired by his love for Beatrice, up the Mount of Purgatory toward Paradise. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

W. S. Merwin has been awarded most of the principal prizes in American poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry. He lives and works on Maui, where he maintains a garden of rare palm trees.
From the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap:

At the pinnacle of a grand and prolific career, W. S. Merwin has given us a shimmering new verse translation of the central section of Dante's Divine Comedy -- the Purgatorio.
  
Led by Virgil, inspired by his love for Beatrice, Dante makes the arduous journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where souls are cleansed to prepare them for the ultimate ascent to heaven.  Presented with the original Italian text, and with Merwin's notes and commentary, this luminous new interpretation of Dante's great poem of sin, repentance, and salvation is a profoundly moving work of art and the definitive translation for our time.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375708391
• ISBN 13: 9780375708398
• Binding: Paperback