Dante's Paradise

Dante's Paradise

by Mark Musa (Author)

Synopsis

The Paradise, which Dante called the sublime canticle, is perhaps the most ambitious book of The Divine Comedy. In this climactic segment, Dante's pilgrim reaches Paradise and encounters the Divine Will. The poet's mystical interpretation of the religious life is a complex and exquisite conclusion to his magnificent trilogy. Mark Musa's powerful and sensitive translation preserves the intricacy of the work while rendering it in clear, rhythmic English. His extensive notes and introductions to each canto make accessible to all readers the diverse and often abstruse ingredients of Dante's unparalleled vision of the Absolute: elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, medieval astrology and science, theological dogma, and the poet's own personal experiences.

$79.86

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 416
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01 Jun 1984

ISBN 10: 0253316197
ISBN 13: 9780253316196

Media Reviews
... Musa's translation ... is stylistically impressive and accurate in its spiritual fervor. - Wallace Fowlie