The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Robert Durling's spirited prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of The Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators.

Reunited with his beloved Beatrice in the Purgatorio, in the Paradiso the poet-narrator journeys with her through the heavenly spheres and comes to know "the state of blessed souls after death." Readers will be drawn to Durling's precise and vivid prose, which captures Dante's extraordinary range of expression — from the high style of divine revelation to colloquial speech, lyrical interludes, and scornful diatribes against corrupt clergy.