Purgatorio

The Resource Purgatorio
Label
Purgatorio
Statement of responsibility
Dante Alighieri ; translated and with commentary by D.M. Black
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  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
Summary
"The Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante's great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one's way in the middle of one's life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of the Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of shock, the sense of pervasive dread and deep bewilderment with which he began his pilgrimage as intensified as alleviated by his terminal vision of evil. The slow and initially arduous climb up the mount of Purgatory that ensues, guided as always by Virgil, his poetic model and mentor, is simultaneously both a reckoning with human limits and a rediscovery of human potential in the light of divine promise. Dante's Purgatorio, which has been an inspiration to poets as different as Shelley and T. S. Eliot, is a book full of human stories, of philosophical inquiry, that is also a tale of individual reintegration and healing. Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides notes to the poem and an introduction to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view"--
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Dewey number
851/.1
Index
no index present
Language note
Parallel texts in translated English and the original Italian
LC call number
PQ4315.3
LC item number
.B57 2021
Literary form
poetry
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
New York Review Books classics
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