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The Divine Comedy
Volume II: Purgatory
Dante Alighieri - Author
Mark Musa - Translator
Mark Musa - Introduction by
Mark Musa - Notes by
Mark Musa - Commentaries by
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 432 pages | ISBN 9780140444421 | 05 Feb 1985 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
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The Divine Comedy

This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text.


@HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a joke? Who the hell came up with story? VIIIRRRGGGILLLLLLLLLLL!

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"Kirkpatrick brings a more nuanced sense of the Italian and a more mediated appreciation of the poem's construction than nearly all of his competitors."
-The Times (London)
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