The paradiso
Subtitle: the devine comedy
By: Dante Alighieri ; the John Ciardi translation
Contributors: Ciardi, John, 1916-
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Work titles: Paradiso.
Description: The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.