num_pages: 928
description: "Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third." T. S. Eliot"Ciardi has given us a credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary gauds of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance." Dudley Fitts"A sensitive and perceptive translation;a spectacular achievement." Archibald MacLeishBelonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise; the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.Now, for the first time, John Ciardi's brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante's three soaring canticles The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso have been gathered together in a single volume. Crystallizing the power and beauty inherent in the great poet's immortal conception of the aspiring soul, The Divine Comedy is a dazzling work of sublime truth and mystical intensity."I think [Ciardi's] version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen." John Crowe Ransom
language: English
title: The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
titlecomplete: The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
characters: Brutus, Marcus Junius, Francesca da Rimini, Attila the Hun, Odysseus, Judas Iscariot, Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Achilles, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Roland, Saul (biblical king), Mary (mother of Jesus), Cleopatra, Trajan (emperor), Cerberus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Lucifer, Beatrice (Dante), Charon (mythology), Dante Alighieri, Dido of Carthage
genres: Religion, Philosophy, Poetry, Literature, Italian Literature, Classic Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Italy, Fiction
ratings_count: 146829
series: La Divina Commedia
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Deutsch-Italienischer Übersetzerpreis, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prêmio Jabuti
category: Tradução, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: New American Library