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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. To be honest, this and Purgatory bored me to tears. I cannot recall many details, other than I found the poetic translation to be clumsy and borderline insipid. In retrospect, I would have rather have read a prose version. (  )Qorvus | Jun 19, 2009 |   This part works beautifully as a counterpart to the Inferno -- rrrrrrright up until the part where he decides that calling something indescribable is a substitute for descriptions. I mean, who does he think he is, Lovecraft? (  )bluedream | Mar 4, 2009 | The worst vision of Heaven ever. I have no idea what happened to Dante's imagination, but apparently it can't imagine happy things well at all. (  )gaialover2 | Feb 26, 2009 | Although, the weakest of the three, Paradiso is still quite amazing for its portrayal of heaven in all its layered complexity. Naturally it is not as vexing or interesting at Purgatorio or Hell but still interesting to see who Dante wanted to place there. Plus, the ending is just hilarious. Again, this translation is great. The Hollander's have outdone themselves. I wonder what they do now. ( )BenjaminHahn | Oct 20, 2008 | Eh, this book was the least interesting of [book: The Divine Comedy] to me. Like [book: Purgatorio], it had some beautiful imagery, but just got pretty boring. ( )selfcallednowhere | Jul 6, 2008 | 0.063 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553212044, Mass Market Paperback)This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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