The Purgatorio Author: Dante, translated by John Ciardi
	Book Information Publisher: Mentor Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 231733 - ISBN-10: Publication Date: 1961 Pages: 350

"Ciardi's PURGATORIO more than satisfies the interest and expectation that were aroused a few years ago by his version of the INFERNO. The clean force of the original comes through with astonishing success. Dante canno speak in English, perhaps; but Ciardi has given us the next best thing--a credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary gauds of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance."--Dudley Fitts