Informed by a profound belief in the dignity and compassion of humanity, and influenced by the turbulent society of thirteenth-century Italy, Dante's Commedia is one of the most extraordinary visions of sin and redemption in literature.
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties and poetry, the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari, whom he called Beatrice,including La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. He died in Ravenna in 1321. Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet and widely-published Dante scholar. He has taught courses on Dante's Divine Comedy in Hong Kong, Dublin, and Cambridge where is Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures.
The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism . . . Likely to
be the best modern version of Dante
*Bernard O'Donoghue*
Kirkpatrick brings a more nuanced sense of the Italian and a more
mediated appreciation of the poem's construction than nearly all of
his competitors
*The Times*
We gain much from Kirkpatrick's fidelity to syntax and nuance...
His introduction...tells you, very readable indeed, pretty much all
you need for a heightened appreciation of the work
*Guardian*
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