The Divine Comedy

Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume); Introduction by Eugenio Montale

Author  Dante Alighieri Introduction by  Eugenio Montale Translated by  Allen Mandelbaum Notes by  Peter Armour
The Divine Comedy

This beautiful hardcover edition—containing 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.

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.

Allen 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…

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August 1, 1995
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