Larger	Purgatorio Author: Dante Alighieri, tr. Allen Mandelbaum
	Book Information Publisher: Bantam Classics Book Type: Mass Market Paperback Members Wishing: 2 Rating: 7 ISBN-13: 9780553213447 - ISBN-10: 055321344X Publication Date: 1/1/1984 Pages: 448 Book Reviews

This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.