The Portable Dante, translated by Mark Musa, is a collection of Dante Alighieri's works including The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova. The book takes readers on a fantastical journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, allowing them to explore Dante's vivid imagination and encounter a myriad of characters and settings. The translation by Musa is highly praised for being readable and making the complex work easier to understand, although some readers find the formatting of the Kindle edition to be lacking.
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Content warnings include graphic depictions of sin and punishment, themes of death, and potential for distressing moral and philosophical dilemmas.
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The famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri's two masterworks- The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova -in one volume
As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purgatory and Paradise, and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a passionate lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunication. As all of these, Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur.
The Portable Dante captures the scope and fire of Dante's genius as thoroughly as any single volume can. It contains complete verse translations of The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova , as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by the eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.
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