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

"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 dram...