With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition. "The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner. "Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths.

Or perhaps with another elusive Beatrice, the heiress to the imperial Swabian throne, whose rumored arrival in the city could upset the political aspirations of Pope Boniface, Dante's nemesis?"--BOOK JACKET.

An epic poem in which the poet describes his visionary spiritual journey through Paradise which results in a purification of his religious faith.

An epic poem in which the poet describes his visionary spiritual journey through Paradise which results in a purification of his religious faith.