Readers of a certain age may remember John Ciardi for his poem books for kids The Reason for the Pelican or I Met a Man. Former students may remember him from the textbook How Does a Poem Mean. Anyway, this is his lucid translation of Dante’s powerful Divine Comedy. The notes are helpful without being daunting as to number or erudition. This would be a useful edition for students in Wes Civ courses.

Translated in 1954 by John Ciardi, this edition published in 2001. It's enough to make you forswear the Three Beasts of Worldliness forever (expecially the "She-Wolf of Incontinence", that sounds real inconvenient).

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classic allegory.

Bought this for class and never read it. I have no interest in reading it, so I will give it to someone who does.

While I appreciate the concept behind this book, it annoyed the hell (unintentional pun) out of me halfway through and I had to stop reading it. The mentality just seems completely juvinile to me.

Dante's travel through the inferno. Pretty good book I have read this one twicevery enjoyable.

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