Description
The Paradise, which Dante called the sublime canticle, is perhaps themost ambitious book of The Divine Comedy. In this climactic segment, Dante's pilgrimreaches Paradise and encounters the Divine Will. The poet's mystical interpretationof the religious life is a complex and exquisite conclusion to his magnificenttrilogy. Mark Musa's powerful and sensitive translation preserves the intricacy ofthe work while rendering it in clear, rhythmic English. His extensive notes andintroductions to each canto make accessible to all readers the diverse and oftenabstruse ingredients of Dante's unparalleled vision of the Absolute: elements ofPtolemaic astronomy, medieval astrology and science, theological dogma, and thepoet's own personal experiences.
