The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics)
<p><b>Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of <i>The Divine Comedy</i>, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time</b><br /><br /><i>The Divine Comedy </i>describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.<br /><br />This volume includes a new introduction, notes, maps and diagrams <br /><br />'The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism... likely to be the best modern version of Dante' - Bernard O'Donoghue<br /><br />'The most moving lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges<br /><br />'This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation - a deeply-informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read' - Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania<br /><br />Individual editions of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation - <i>Inferno</i>, <i>Purgatorio</i> and <i>Paradiso</i> - are also available in Penguin Classics, and include Dante's Italian printed alongside the English text.</p>