The Divine Comedy

Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Dante Alighieri
Illustrated by Eric Drooker
Introduction by Robin Kirkpatrick
Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick
Notes by Robin Kirkpatrick

By Dante Alighieri
Illustrated by Eric Drooker
Introduction by Robin Kirkpatrick
Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick
Notes by Robin Kirkpatrick

Part of Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Part of Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

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    About The Divine Comedy

    A stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature

    An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante’s descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and furnished with semiautobiographical details, Dante’s poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. This acclaimed blank verse translation is published here for the first time in a one-volume edition.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Divine Comedy

    This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

    Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. 

    Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.


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    "The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism . . . Likely to be the best modern version of Dante."
    — Bernard O’Donoghue

    "Kirkpatrick brings a more nuanced sense of the Italian and a more mediated appreciation of the poem’s construction than nearly all of his competitors."
    — The Times (London)

    "We gain much from Kirkpatrick’s fidelity to syntax and nuance. . . . His introduction . . . tells you, very readable indeed, pretty much all you need for a heightened appreciation of the work."
    — The Guardian (London)

    About Dante Alighieri

    Dante, or Durante deli Alighieri, was born in Florence, Italy, circa 1265. His family was connected with the Guelph political alliance, supporters of the Papacy. His mother died before Dante’s tenth birthday. Dante himself was betrothed to Gemma di Manetto… More about Dante Alighieri

    About Dante Alighieri

    Dante, or Durante deli Alighieri, was born in Florence, Italy, circa 1265. His family was connected with the Guelph political alliance, supporters of the Papacy. His mother died before Dante’s tenth birthday. Dante himself was betrothed to Gemma di Manetto… More about Dante Alighieri

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    Feb 26, 2013 | 752 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143107194

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