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  Divine Comedy: Book 1

  The Inferno

  by Dante Alighieri

  The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination.No human should be allowed to die before they read this epic comedy.The new Hollander (Robert & Jean) translations are excellent.
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  Divine Comedy: Book 2

  Purgatorio

  by Dante Alighieri

  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... (more)
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  Divine Comedy: Book 3

  Paradiso

  by Dante Alighieri

  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 the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes... (more)