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by Dante Alighieri (Author), D. M. Black (Translator), D. M. Black (Introduction by)
A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator.
Winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry.
Author Biography
Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) most famous works are The New Life, which is available in the NYRB Poets series in a translation by Dante Gabriel Rosetti; De vulgari eloquentia, a defense of the use of the vernacular in literature; and his epic vision of the afterlife, The Divine Comedy. NYRB Classics also publishes Dante's Inferno in a translation by Ciaran Carson.
D. M. Black is the author of seven poetry collections, including Claiming Kindred (2011) and The Arrow Maker (2017). He edited Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? (2006), and is the author of Why Things Matter: The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion (2011). He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and livesin London. Robert Pogue Harrison is a critic, radio host, and the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University. His most recent book is Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age.
Number of Pages: 488
Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.9 x 5 IN
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
