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Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

Purgatory
Dante Alighieri - Author
Mark Musa - Translator
Mark Musa - Introduction by
Mark Musa - Notes by
Mark Musa - Commentaries by
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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 432 pages | ISBN 9780140444421 | 30 May 1985 | Penguin Classic
The Divine Comedy
In the second volume of his definitive translation of The Divine Comedy, Mark Musa again brings his poetic sensitivity and skill as a translator and annotator to the difficult task of making Dante’s masterpiece vital for English-speaking readers.

In Purgatory, Dante deals with the origins of sin as he struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory on his arduous journey towards God. In Musa’s fine idiomatic translation - complete with prose introductions, bibliography and glossary - Dante comes alive as the universal poet - sublime, grim, intellectual, simple, humorous, tender and ecstatic.

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