The Divine Comedy, Volume 2: Purgatory (Musa Translation)
This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text.\ @HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a...
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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 contemplates the origins of sin as he struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory on his arduous journey toward God. In Musa's fine idiomatic translation—complete with prose introductions, bibliography, and glossary—Dante becomes the universal poet, sublime, grim, intellectual, simple, humorous, tender, and ecstatic.London Review of BooksA superlatively readable new translation.
IntroductionixAbbreviationsxxvCanto I1Canto II17Canto III29Canto IV40Canto V49Canto VI57Canto VII69Canto VIII82Canto IX96Canto X108Canto XI118Canto XII128Canto XIII138Canto XIV149Canto XV161Canto XVI171Canto XVII181Canto XVIII191Canto XIX202Canto XX214Canto XXI228Canto XXII236Canto XXIII249Canto XXIV257Canto XXV269Canto XXVI279Canto XXVII290Canto XXVIII300Canto XXIX309Canto XXX321Canto XXXI330Canto XXXII343Canto XXXIII358Glossary and Index of Persons and Places371Selected Bibliography395
\ London Review of BooksA superlatively readable new translation.\ \ \ \ \ Los Angeles TimesIt moves one to virtual awe…The language itself becomes, as it should, a religious experience.\ \
