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"Musa s commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." Library Journal

"Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." Choice

The publication of the first two volumes of the six-volume Divine Comedy brings readers Mark Musa s vivid verse translation of the Inferno. Musa has revised his earlier version, long cited as the most accessible and reliable of the English translations. The dual-language first volume presents Musa s translation with facing Italian text, and compiled in...

To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved - the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady - he combined them into a great allegory of the soul's search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it...