The Divine Comedy & Paradise, 9780140441055
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Journey through Hell and Purgatory to find divine love in Paradise.

The Divine Comedy & Paradise

volume 3: paradise

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    30 December 1963

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Summary

Dante’s Paradise: A Journey to Divine Love

‘The most moving lines literature has achieved’ - Jorge Luis Borges

In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul’s search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in understanding, until he finally experiences divine love in the radiant presence of the deity. Examining eternal ques…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140441055
ISBN-10:0140441050
Series:Penguin Classics
Author:Dante Alighieri, Barbara Reynolds
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Edition:1st
Release Date:30 December 1963
Weight:280g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 24mm
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Critics 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“A marvel of fidelity to the original, of sobriety, and truly, of inspired poetry.” —Henri Peyre, Yale University

About The Author

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He was married when he was around twenty to Gemma Donati and had four children. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova. He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321.

Dorothy L. Sayers wrote novels, poetry, and translated Dante for the Penguin Classics. She died in 1957.

Barbara Reynolds was Lecturer in Italian at Cambridge University and subsequently Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham, and Honorary Reader at Warwick. She has written books, both on Italian authors and on Dorothy L. Sayers.

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