Paradiso
$45.24
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2025
Summary
A new translation of the final part of Dante’s Divine Comedy by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante’s Purgatorio.
Paradiso brings The Divine Comedy to a virtuosic and visionary end. This final leg of Dante’s journey from Hell into the presence of God is for many the most memorable stretch of the poem, a musical and mystical interweaving of mind and heart and transported sense that is unlike anything else in world literature. This ne…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681379432 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681379430 |
| Author: | Dante Alighieri, D.M. Black |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 516g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 203mm x 127mm |
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About The Author
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine poet and philosopher. Banished from Florence when his political enemies took power in 1301, he is best known for his works The New Life and The Divine Comedy, as well as his essay De vulgari eloquentia, a defense of the use of the vernacular in literature. He died in exile, in Ravenna.
D. M. Black is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently 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 Psychoanalysis and Ethics- The Necessity of Perspective (2024). He is the translator of Dante’s Purgatorio (2021) and Paradiso (2025) for NYRB Classics, the former of which won the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and lives in London.
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