The Divine Comedy (John Ciardi Translation)

This brilliant, standard translation of one of the great classics of Western literature is now made available in a single-volume hardcover edition, for the first time complete and in final form. Archibald MacLeish describes Card's version as "a text with the clarity and sobriety of a first-rate prose translation which at the same time suggests in powerful and unmistakable ways the run and rhythm of the great original...a spectacular achievement." Dante Alighieri (translated by John Ciardi), 1977 Hardcover, Very Good 602 pages 834g 22 x 14.5 x 3.8 cm