The Paradiso
By (Author) Dante Alighieri
Translated by John Ciardi
Introduction by John Freccero
Afterword by Edward M. Cifelli
Penguin Putnam Inc
Signet Classics
15th December 2009
United States
General
Non Fiction
Poetry / poems by individual poets
FIC
400
Width 105mm, Height 171mm, Spine 26mm
210g
In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving- the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.
John Ciardi was a distinguished poet and professor, having taught at Harvard and Rutgers universities, and a poetry editor of The Saturday Review. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1955 he won the Harriet Monroe Memorial Award, and in 1956, the Prix de Rome. He died in 1986.