Individual editions of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - are also available in Penguin Classics, and include Dante's Italian printed alongside the English text. '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 'The most moving lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges likely to be the best modern version of Dante' - Bernard O'Donoghue In Lecture III of his Heroes and Hero-worship, Carlyle is all praises for it. 'The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism. Dante’s Divine Comedy is one of the most remarkable poems that have come down to us from the middle ages. This volume includes a new introduction, notes, maps and diagrams Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. The Divine Comedy 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. Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, 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
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