Purgatorio
Subtitle: A New Verse Translation
Contributors: W.S. Merwin (Translator)
Publisher: Knopf
Published: October 9, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780375708398
First sentence: To course on better waters the little boat of my wit, that leaves behind her so cruel a sea, now raises her sails, and I will sing of that second kingdom in which the human spirit is made clean and becomes worthy to ascend to Heaven.