Purgatory
First Canto
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An original English translation of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ central part. A text and audio series of the first 9 cantos of Dante’s Purgatory. In this book ‘Canto Primo’ or First Canto. The book contains text and narration set to Deo Bosco's original music.
Purgatory, in Dante’s vision of the world, is a world of possibilities that mirrors our own, not an afterworld, but a journey of redemption in our own world.
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In addition to the Pessoa title reviewed above, a tremendous amount of terrific poetry in translation is due this fall and winter. The books listed below, in varying ways, re-examine classics and introduce modern masters to English speakers.PURGATORIODante Alighieri, trans. from the Italian by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander. Doubleday, $35 (656p) With its elegant, carefully negotiated translations and canto-by-canto notes, outlines and annotations, this second volume from the Hollanders takes its place beside last year's Inferno and paves the way for Paradise. These translations, honed over Robert Hollander's 35 years teaching Dante at Princeton, are touted as the U.S. English standard for rendering Dante's layered meanings.
