The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio
Hardcover
1996 · New York
by Alighieri, Dante and John Ciardi
New York: The Modern Library, 1996. Hardcover. G+ (Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; some scuffs to covers; some marring to bottom edge of binding; page surfaces are clean.). Light gray cloth, siena and burgandy and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover; 364 pp. "Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. In the Purgatoria, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in continuation of his difficult ascent to purity." (dj). (Inventory #: 159538)