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Reviewed on January 10, 2014 | Nonfiction
Durling (English & Italian literature, emeritus, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) completes his Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri verse translation with this volume (after Inferno, 1996, and Purgatorio, 2003), which joins the modern editions of John Ciardi, Allen Mandelbaum, Mark Musa, Jean and Robert Hollander, Burton Raffel, and C.H. Sisson, as well the idiosyncratic rendition by Clive James. Paradiso is the most challenging of t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More