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The Paradiso


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Paradiso

Contributors:

By (Author) Dante Alighieri
Translated by John Ciardi
Introduction by John Freccero
Afterword by Edward M. Cifelli

ISBN:

9780451531414

Publisher:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:

Signet Classics

Publication Date:

15th December 2009

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Poetry / poems by individual poets

Dewey:

FIC

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

400

Dimensions:

Width 105mm, Height 171mm, Spine 26mm

Weight:

210g

Description

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.

Author Bio

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.

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