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The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri
By Alighieri, Dante & Durling, Robert M. & Martinez, Ronald L.
- ISBN
- 978-0-19508-741-3
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2003
The Purgatorio is perhaps the most medieval of the three books of the Divine Comedy. The sufferings of the Inferno have a direct appeal, and the abstract disputations of the Paradiso take on a detached life of their own, but the Purgatorio, with its pageants, ritual processions, and tableaux, uses narrative strategies that are no longer current. In this new translation, Durling (English & Italian literature, emeritus, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) tries to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
