Paradiso: the divine comedy of dante alighieri : The Divine Comedy Series, Book 3

This Brilliant New Verse Translation By Allen Mandelbaum Captures The Consummate Beauty Of The Third And Last Part Of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso Is A Luminous Poem Of Love And Light, Of Optics, Angelology, Polemics, Prayer, Prophecy, And Transcendent Experience. As Dante Ascends To The Celestial Rose, In The Tenth And Final Heaven, All The Spectacle And Splendor Of A Great Poet's Vision Now Becomes Accessible To The Modern Reader In This Highly Acclaimed, Superb Dual Language Edition. With Extensive Notes And Commentary. - From The Publisher. [translated And] With An Introduction By Allen Mandelbaum ; Notes By Anthony Oldcorn And Daniel Feldman, With Giuseppe Di Scipio ; Drawings By Barry Moser. Originally Published: Berkeley : University Of California Press, 1982. (the California Dante) Bibliographical Note: P. 428-429. The Italian Text With An English Verse Translation. The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God. An informative introduction and commentary accompany this classic translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell, available in a dual-language edition. Reissue. DANTE STATES his supreme theme as Paradise itself and invokes the aid not only of the Muses but of Apollo.