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Description

This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to... read more

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First Sentence

The glory of Him who moveth everything Doth penetrate the universe, and shine In one part more and in another less.

Series

This is book 3 in the Divine Comedy series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Dante Alighieri (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. John Ciardi
 

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