The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory

In the second volume of his definitive translation of The Divine Comedy, Mark Musa again brings his poetic sensitivity and skill as a translator and annotator to the difficult task of making Dante's masterpiece vital for English-speaking readers. In Purgatory, Dante contemplates the origins of sin as he struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory on his arduous journey toward God. In Musa's fine idiomatic translation—complete with prose introductions, bibliography, and glossary—Dante becomes the universal poet, sublime, grim, intellectual, simple, humorous, tender, and ecstatic.

London Review of Books

A superlatively readable new translation.