Purgatorio (Paperback)

This splendid verse translation by Allen  Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of  Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante  ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly  Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that  second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed  of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry  and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of  a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and  commentary prepared especially for this  edition.