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# The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

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Review: Timeless classic - This is not (cannot) be a review of Dante's classic - who would dare, as Dante's text is up there, at the very top, next to Lear and Quixote, the essays of Montaigne and Emerson, and a few more - not much more books. It is a piece of history, it's a book that makes you feel you need no more books, or as Carlyle said: Dante is the voice who put an end to ten centuries of silence. This is more a review of the superb Penguin edition, of the priceless introduction, of a very good translation and over one hundred pages of notes that lead the reader through the layers of the timeless poem, and through a who's who in Medieval Florence - and as a bonus, to the actual antecedent for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Dante has seldom, if at all, been presented as superbly as it is here. As Harold Bloom said, "immortal books are those which you want to finish soon, so you can read them again, sometimes even when you're still reading them for the first time". This one fully qualifies for that notion. Words that leave one without words. Lastly, a tip for those who enjoyed this jewel of a book: do read before, during or after it, Oxford's Very Brief Introduction of Dante, by Pater Haimsworth and David Robey, a magnificent companion to the poem and a very illuminating view to Dante.
Review: A fine translation - I have made one previous attempt to read the Divine Comedy in English, using Longfellow's translation of 1867. This foundered somewhere in the middle of Purgatorio (i.e. the second of the three sections), largely as a result of trying to read it in too-large chunks with too-long gaps in between (and consequently losing the plot). My current read-through, using this Penguin Classics edition translated by Robin Kirkpatrick (c. 2007), has been more successful and I am now nearing the end of Paradiso (the final section). This is partly due to my newer strategy of reading (aloud) one canto every day, but this wouldn't work if the translation didn't flow well. Fortunately it does. Kirkpatrick's translation is in iambic pentameter blank verse, which works much more naturally in English than trying to force the original Italian poem's terza rima to work in translation. He uses a variety of registers, from exalted to earthy (which probably mirrors the original text, although my grasp of Italian isn't good enough to know for sure - if it was I probably wouldn't bother with a translation anyway). There are fairly frequent quotations in Latin, which are left untranslated in the text with a translation given in the end-notes. The notes are extensive and give a lot of useful background information about the many classical allusions and references to Dante's contemporaries and the politics and culture in which he was writing, as well as a few nice maps and diagrams. There is also a very comprehensive looking introduction which I haven't read yet (I decided to plunge straight into the text and then go back to the introduction when I've finished).

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0141197498 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 7,448 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1 in Italian Poetry (Books) 3 in Mystical Poetry 9 in Religious Poetry (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (835) |
| Dimensions  | 12.95 x 4.19 x 19.81 cm |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 9780141197494 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0141197494 |
| Item weight  | 515 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 752 pages |
| Publication date  | 29 Nov. 2012 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Classics |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Timeless classic
*by R***A on 30 March 2021*

This is not (cannot) be a review of Dante's classic - who would dare, as Dante's text is up there, at the very top, next to Lear and Quixote, the essays of Montaigne and Emerson, and a few more - not much more books. It is a piece of history, it's a book that makes you feel you need no more books, or as Carlyle said: Dante is the voice who put an end to ten centuries of silence. This is more a review of the superb Penguin edition, of the priceless introduction, of a very good translation and over one hundred pages of notes that lead the reader through the layers of the timeless poem, and through a who's who in Medieval Florence - and as a bonus, to the actual antecedent for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Dante has seldom, if at all, been presented as superbly as it is here. As Harold Bloom said, "immortal books are those which you want to finish soon, so you can read them again, sometimes even when you're still reading them for the first time". This one fully qualifies for that notion. Words that leave one without words. Lastly, a tip for those who enjoyed this jewel of a book: do read before, during or after it, Oxford's Very Brief Introduction of Dante, by Pater Haimsworth and David Robey, a magnificent companion to the poem and a very illuminating view to Dante.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fine translation
*by M***R on 13 May 2014*

I have made one previous attempt to read the Divine Comedy in English, using Longfellow's translation of 1867. This foundered somewhere in the middle of Purgatorio (i.e. the second of the three sections), largely as a result of trying to read it in too-large chunks with too-long gaps in between (and consequently losing the plot). My current read-through, using this Penguin Classics edition translated by Robin Kirkpatrick (c. 2007), has been more successful and I am now nearing the end of Paradiso (the final section). This is partly due to my newer strategy of reading (aloud) one canto every day, but this wouldn't work if the translation didn't flow well. Fortunately it does. Kirkpatrick's translation is in iambic pentameter blank verse, which works much more naturally in English than trying to force the original Italian poem's terza rima to work in translation. He uses a variety of registers, from exalted to earthy (which probably mirrors the original text, although my grasp of Italian isn't good enough to know for sure - if it was I probably wouldn't bother with a translation anyway). There are fairly frequent quotations in Latin, which are left untranslated in the text with a translation given in the end-notes. The notes are extensive and give a lot of useful background information about the many classical allusions and references to Dante's contemporaries and the politics and culture in which he was writing, as well as a few nice maps and diagrams. There is also a very comprehensive looking introduction which I haven't read yet (I decided to plunge straight into the text and then go back to the introduction when I've finished).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing read
*by A***! on 27 May 2025*

Ever since Dan Brown's inferno, I had an intense I Dante. Finally I can read all three parts of his epic writing and is going to ve very useful for me.

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