The Divine Comedy . 3

Paradise

Plot

Dante (1265-1321) is the greatest of Italian poets and his DIVINE COMEDY is the finest of all Christian allegories. 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. This edition is translated by, and includes an Introduction by, Dorothy L. Sayers. Barbara Reynolds has brilliantly completed the fine verse translation which Dorothy Sayers left unfinished at her death, and the whole spirit of The Divine Comedy can now be grasped by a wider public than ever before.