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The Purgatorio (John Ciardi Translation) Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Mar 2, 2007 - The divine comedy: the inferno, the purgatorio, and the paradiso by Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi translation. Apr 29, 2012 - Dante's Commedia, written in the early 1300s, is ostensibly an epic poem about a pilgrim who travels through Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purgatory), and Paradiso (heaven) to encounter God face-to-face and then returns to tell us about it. May 8, 2014 - Somehow we had John Ciardi's three-volume verse translation on our shelves. Mar 13, 2014 - The Dante translator John Ciardi tells us that the ancients believed that dreams that come just before dawn are often prophetic. Gun, with occasional music by Jonathan Lethem. Sep 22, 2008 - Personally, my favorite book is Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (which is often actually sold as a set of three books: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, The Paradiso). My library also had the John Ciardi translation. May 13, 2013 - My favorite part of the entire poem happens to be when Dante reaches the depths of Hell, climbing down ginormous Satan's legs towards Purgatory and all of a sudden gravity switches on him and he's now climbing up… because he's crossed the I listened to a several hour seminar on the poem before I launched into it, which turned out to not really be necessary due to the great amount of notes in Ciardi's translation. More interestingly, it is a poem of learning, philosophy, and the struggles of life with more .. Dec 27, 2010 - Instead, I'm comfortably under a quilt, re-reading John Ciardi's translation of Dante. I hear there is a John Ciardi translation that may be better. So I started “Midway in our life's journey” and continued from there, down into the Inferno. Here is the beginning I read his Inferno in my freshman year of college, then, much later, in my thirties, I read his Purgatorio and Paradiso. Sinclair's prose is There are merely verbal diagrams--one each--of the schemes of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Jun 8, 2007 - John Ciardi does a good job at a poetic translation, and I have his edition at hand as an additional reference. Jul 12, 2011 - It would make me me feel better, and in that sense a Purgatory would be for my sake rather than a place God sends me to to make me worthy in His eyes. It was originally I personally recommend John Ciardi's translation). Because the Time is Near (John MacArthur). Heaney's translation of Beowulf; J.A.B Van Buitenen's translation of The Bhagavad Gita; Dante's Divine Comedy (Robert Pinsky's translation of Inferno, W.