The Portable DanteThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks—The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova—in one volume A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purgatory and Paradise, and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a passionate lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunication. As all of these, Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante captures the scope and fire of Dante’s genius as thoroughly as any single volume can. It contains complete verse translations of The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by the eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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Contents
Editors Introduction | ix |
Translators Note | xxxvii |
THE DIVINE COMEDY | 1 |
Purgatory | 193 |
Paradise | 389 |
VITA NUOVA | 587 |
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Aeneid angels answered beast Beatrice beauty began begins bliss body bolgia born burning Cacciaguida called CANTO Charles Martel Charles of Anjou Christ Church circle climb Cocytus color Convivio Dante Dante's daughter death desire Divine Comedy earth eternal eyes face faith father fear flame Florence Florentine gaze Ghibelline glow God's grace gracious grief Guelphs Guido Guido Guinizzelli hear heard heart Heaven Hell holy Inferno journey king lady Latin light living look Lord master mind mountain moved nature never once Paradise Pilgrim poem poet Pope Pope Boniface VIII Provençal Purgatory Roman round seemed shade shines sighs sight singing sinner smile sonnet Sordello souls speak sphere spirit spoke stars Statius sweet tears tell things thought truth turned verse Virgil virtue vision Vita nuova voice walked weep wings words