The radiant climax to Dante's awe-inspiring epic, in a definitive new
translation
Having plunged to the utmost depths of Hell and climbed Mount Purgatory
in the first two parts of The Divine Comedy, Dante now ascends to
Heaven, guided by his beloved Beatrice, to continue his search for God.
As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise, he grows ever closer
to experiencing divine love in the overwhelming presence of the deity.
Examining eternal questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment, Dante
exercised all of his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his
creation of one of the greatest of all Christian allegories. This
edition prints Robin Kirkpatrick's impressive new translation alongside
Dante's original Italian.
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