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Purgatory Author: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9780140444421 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 428 Published: 30 May 1985 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 13.1 x 2.1 Description: In the second volume of his definitive translation of The Divine Comedy, Mark Musa again brings his poetic sensitivity and skill as a translator and annotator to the difficult task of making Dante's masterpiece vital for English-speaking readers. In Purgatory, Dante deals with the origins of sin as he struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory on his arduous journey toward God. In Musa's fine idiomatic translation - complete with prose introductions, bibliography, and glossary - Dante comes alive as the universal poet - sublime, grim, intellectual, simple, humorous, tender, and ecstatic.

'It moves one to virtual awe... The language itself becomes, as it should, a religious experience.

Los Angeles Times

About The Author

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He followed a normal course of studies, possibly attending university in Bologna, and when he was about twenty he married Gemma Donati, by whom he had several children. He had first met Bice Portinati, whom he called Bea...

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