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Purgatory
"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"
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: Feb 5th, 1985
- Pages: 399
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.76in - 5.09in - 0.78in - 0.68lb
- EAN: 9780140444421
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Medieval• Epic• European - Italian
About the Author
What people are saying
silly cat on the internet 🌸 any prns 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | @kittycatnight
dante alighieri was such a chad.. he wrote a book in which the people he didn't like went to hell and his friends went in purgatory and in paradise with his imaginary parasocial girlfriend
The Friends of West Hampstead Library - here to help the cause of reading, culture, education + non-commercial repose in our busy, beloved corner of the capital
Italian poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri may have been born #OTD 1265. Best known for for his Divine Comedy (c. 1319) where he descends through Hell, climbs Purgatory, & arrives in Paradise, meeting many historical figures along the way. https://t.co/9AuycRjRWI
Author of 5 novels Dancing Priest, A Light Shining, Dancing King, Dancing Prophet, & Dancing Prince, and the non-fiction book Poetry at Work. Editor @tspoetry.
Beatrice Smiles: Canto XXXI of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns at Society of Classical Poets https://t.co/94z6DlG55p
Praise for this book
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths." -Robert Fagles, Princeton University
"A marvel of fidelity to the original, of sobriety, and truly, of inspired poetry." -Henri Peyre, Yale University
What people are saying
silly cat on the internet 🌸 any prns 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | @kittycatnight
dante alighieri was such a chad.. he wrote a book in which the people he didn't like went to hell and his friends went in purgatory and in paradise with his imaginary parasocial girlfriend
The Friends of West Hampstead Library - here to help the cause of reading, culture, education + non-commercial repose in our busy, beloved corner of the capital
Italian poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri may have been born #OTD 1265. Best known for for his Divine Comedy (c. 1319) where he descends through Hell, climbs Purgatory, & arrives in Paradise, meeting many historical figures along the way. https://t.co/9AuycRjRWI