Purgatorio

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Oxford University Press, USA, 1961 M12 31 - 448 pages
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.

"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"

 

Contents

III
19
IV
33
V
45
VI
57
VII
69
VIII
81
IX
85
X
95
XXI
233
XXII
245
XXIII
257
XXIV
271
XXV
283
XXVI
297
XXVII
309
XXVIII
325

XI
107
XII
119
XIII
131
XIV
143
XV
155
XVI
169
XVII
183
XVIII
197
XIX
209
XX
221
XXIX
337
XXX
351
XXXI
365
XXXII
377
XXXIII
393
XXXIV
403
XXXV
419
XXXVI
435
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Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321) was an Italian Florentine poet.