The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso (John Ciardi Translation)

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Overview

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them—there is no third."—T. S. Eliot

"Ciardi has given us…a credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary gauds of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance."—Dudley Fitts

"A sensitive and perceptive translation…a spectacular achievement."—Archibald MacLeish

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

Now, for the first time, John Ciardi's brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante's three soaring canticles—The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso—have been gathered together in a single volume. Crystallizing the power and beauty inherent in the great poet's immortal conception of the aspiring soul, The Divine Comedy is a dazzling work of sublime truth and mystical intensity.

"I think [Ciardi's] version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen."—John Crowe Ransom

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780451208637
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/27/2003
  • Pages: 928
  • Sales rank: 93,768
  • Product dimensions: 6.18 (w) x 9.06 (h) x 1.52 (d)

Meet the Author

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.

Table of Contents

The Divine Comedy How to Read Dante Translator's Note
The Inferno
Introduction Cantos

The Purgatorio
Introduction Cantos

The Paradiso
Introduction Cantos

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 19, 2006

    dante is great, ciardi is not

    i have read a different translation of dante's inferno and found it to be nothing short of amazing. this translation, however, is nothing more than a glorified 'spark notes' translation. much is lost in ciardi's extremely over simplified translation. i would suggest this to a high school freshman who just wants to get though it. to a well-read student of literature, though, this reading is unfulfilling and meaningless.

    8 out of 16 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 20, 2011

    I was disappointed

    The book, of course, is a classic but I was very disappointed in the translation and added notes. I find Charles Eliot Norton to be very big on himself. I would recommend (for anyone wanted to read The Divine Comedy) to find a different translation.

    3 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 12, 2009

    EBOOK SCAM

    Do not buy the eBook. It is not the John Ciardi translation.

    3 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2007

    it depends...

    how you like John Ciardi's version depends on whether you want an easier ead or not. he gives you a summary of the canto in the Inferno that i read by him which was very helpful for my first time, but he does leave out some details to make it more simple. if you want the more complex versions that involve a better translation, i would go for a different translater.

    3 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2006

    The Greatest piece of classic liturature.

    I must say that Dante has gone past the norm of classical lit. He takes you through a world beyond what we can comprehend. He shows us what happens after our life. Written during his own last days he brings a whole new thinking to the after-life by allowing us to visualize what these places are like. I recommend this to everyone. A GREAT PIECE OF LITURATURE!

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 15, 2005

    unnecessarily florid...

    I generally find Mandelbaum's translations to be excessively wordy and this work is no exception. It is as if his sole goal is to sound grand. And he succeeds, in this at least, but often the verbosity detracts from the meaning of what the reader is reading... too many pretty words jammed together so tightly that the screen they're supposed to form form winds up opaque. I'd suggest the Longfellow translation for a more pared approach that still manages to maintain Dante's magnificence, or even Ciardi - the people I've spoken to seem to have a love/hate opinion about his work, but I find it alluring.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2012

    Wonderful, But....

    We are reading this translation of The Inferno in class (translated by J.C.), and it is wonderful.

    However, I am confused Barnes and Noble......

    Are you allowing for the same comments that are posted on one translation to be automatically posted on all the other versions? This isn't helpful, because readers may wish to compare one translation to another by reading the reviews...... That's what I was trying to do, to see which version of The Divine Comedy I wished to buy, but couldn't. I realize that I should probably post this in some forum online, and I will eventually. And of course, what I could be seeing is the result of spammers, but I don't think this is likely.

    Anyway, I absolutely believe that this is a wonderful translation and would highly recommend it.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 9, 2011

    booooo

    tootally sucks

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 28, 2010

    This is not the John Ciardi Translation

    I just downloaded the this ebook, and this is not the John Ciardi translation!

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 9, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

    9781593082765

    Excellent translaton

    I have read The Divine Comedy two times before, with difficulty, although it is a great story. This translation is the best I have seen, making this classic much easier to understand and stick with. My 14 year old granddaughter asked me about the book and was my incentive to buy it and read it again. To understand the characters you do have to keep flipping back and forth from the footnotes and the text, so to make it easier for her I have written the footnotes along the sides of the pages where they belong. So much mythology and ancient ways of living are incorporated into the book that it makes today's children uninterested in reading it because of the research needed. But as a classic it is worth the work and very stimulating to try to understand. Don't know if this makes any sense to you or not, but again a great translation.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 17, 2008

    Do Not Order

    This story is nothing more than one man trying to justify tearing apart others lives and the choices they make that he personally does not agree. While giving his own sins lighter punishments & less hellish placement in the inferno. Many of his characters were still alive at the time he wrote this which is evidenced by the fact that after its publication Dante was panished from his home.
    The producer of this CD version "Blackstone Audio" is highly flawed. Several of audio CD's had no information on them - they are blank. Others were covered in a sticky glue that had to be cleaned before they would play. If you must have this for a class order a version from a different company!

    1 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 26, 2007

    Awesome

    Simply awesome...a must read.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 12, 2007

    Really Divine

    As a freshman in High school, I fully uderstood what Dante, one of the greatest Italian poet, was reaching out for to say. And to who said it wasn't wonderful, you may want to do research on Catholicism, which Dante was a Catholic!

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 19, 2004

    Dante = God

    Dante is not only one of the best poets of all time, he is also one of the hardest to translate. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands, Dante is one of the authors you leave to higher reading levels.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2001

    Abandon hope.

    This is a great disappointment. The reader lacks any dramatic range, natters on and on like a dotty old aunt through convoluted ideas, dialogue, and scenery. It is often a challenge to know which character is speaking, owing partly to very understated transitions provided by the translator. The publisher never does confess who the translator was, and fails to provide any supporting/critical materials such as the accompanying booklets in Penguin's Iliad and Odyssey readings which added so much depth to those (4 and 5 stars, respectively). I really wanted to enjoy this, but find I am loading each successive cassette more out of stubbornness than hopeful expectation.

    1 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 27, 2012

    Thomas paine

    good

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2012

    The divine Comedy everyone should read!

    All three books were amazing to have such insigh in Dantes books!

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  • Posted January 26, 2012

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    Although extremely dense, Dante's Divine Comedy is an incredible work of imagination and biblical scripture knowledge.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 16, 2011

    Dante is brilliant

    I don't approve of the translation

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  • Posted September 23, 2011

    Dante

    Epic!

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