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The Paradiso |
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| Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.33 x 6.85in | 368 pages | ISBN 9780451528056 | 01 Aug 2001 | Signet Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human striving—the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensity—an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, “the Love that moves the Sun and other stars.”
“Ciardi has given us...a credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary gauds of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance."
—Dudley Fitts
“A sensitive and perceptive translation.”—Archibald MacLeish
"I think [Ciardi’s] version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen." —John Crowe Ransom
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