num_pages: 654
description: Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante contains complete verse translations of Dante's two masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.
language: English
title: The Portable Dante
titlecomplete: The Portable Dante
genres: Religion, Philosophy, Medieval, Poetry, Literature, Italian Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Italy, Fiction
ratings_count: 1158
publisher: Penguin Books