Purgatorio
Author: Dante, Dante
ISBN: 9780140448962
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 592
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
New translation of Dante's masterpiece by acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick
In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transition to the lost Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit, where he meets his dead love, Beatrice, and prepares to ascend to Heaven. Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, Dante's poem transformed the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection. It is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human possibility, hope and redemption.
ISBN: 9780140448962
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 592
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
New translation of Dante's masterpiece by acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick
In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transition to the lost Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit, where he meets his dead love, Beatrice, and prepares to ascend to Heaven. Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, Dante's poem transformed the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection. It is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human possibility, hope and redemption.
