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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatorio

The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatorio

Alighieri, Dante
Kirkpatrick, Robin
Kirkpatrick, Robin

Paperback

Series: Divine Comedy, Book 2

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0140448969
ISBN13: 9780140448962
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 592
Weight: 0.88
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.22 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
The second volume of Dante's epic, printed with the original Italian and Robin Kirkpatrick's sublime translation

Climbing out of Hell, Dante in the Purgatorio reaches an island set in the southern ocean. This is Mount Purgatory, where he encounters the penitents who heroically endure their sufferings and speak of their time on Earth. Strange and fresh at every turn, Dante's narrative evokes the mountain landscape in terms of intense physical sensation, right up to the summit. There, before rising to heaven, he enters the Earthly Paradise, where he is movingly reunited with his lost love, Beatrice. This gloriously vivid portrayal of the search for redemption transformed the traditional conception of Purgatory and affirmed the dignity of human will and compassion.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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