Divine Comedy, The: The Paradiso - Softcover

Alighieri, Dante

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451528050 ISBN 13: 9780451528056

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2001

Synopsis

In the third part of Dante's epic poem, The Divine Comedy, about the three realms of the Christian afterlife, having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise. Reprint.

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Review

"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"

& quot; The English Dante of choice.& quot; --Hugh Kenner.

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

& quot; Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations.& quot; -- The Christian Science Monitor

& quot; Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise.& quot;
-- Book Review Digest

"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"

"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

"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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451528050
• ISBN 13: 9780451528056
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368