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The Divine Comedy

Penguin Classics
by Dante Alighieri

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Translator Robin Kirkpatrick
Length 17 hours 16 minutes
Language English
Narrators Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies & Robin Kirkpatrick

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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. This major translation, described by Bernard O'Donoghue as 'likely to be the best modern version of Dante', is published here for the first time in a single volume.

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Poetry

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova. He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321.

Audiobook details

Author:

Narrators:
Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies & Robin Kirkpatrick

ISBN:
9780241425541

Length:
17 hours 16 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#27,266 Overall

Genre rank:
#138 in Poetry

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Reviews

The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism . . . Likely to be the best modern version of Dante Kirkpatrick brings a more nuanced sense of the Italian and a more mediated appreciation of the poem's construction than nearly all of his competitors We gain much from Kirkpatrick's fidelity to syntax and nuance... His introduction...tells you, very readable indeed, pretty much all you need for a heightened appreciation of the work Expand reviews
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