Description The author has completed his own translation of the Divine Comedy and finds that it is still hard for readers to manage the whole text. He has extracted what he feels is the main spiritual thread and worked with key passages. He has then given the original Italian alongside his translation into English and provided a narrative thread and annotations for clarity. Included in this edition is a talk he gave to the Summer School at the University of Cape Town Su...

Excerpt INFERNO V They enter the second circle, the first of Hell proper, which encloses less space, (chemenloco cinghia), than the previous one, but has so much greater pain, (tantopiùdolor). Minos, thejudge, guards the entrance, examines all the souls who are to enter and indicates to them to which circle they will descend.  Cosi discesi delcerchio primaio   And so I left the first, and to the sec...

The author has completed his own translation of the Divine Comedy and finds that it is still hard for readers to manage the whole text. He has extracted what he feels is the main spiritual thread and worked with key passages. He has then given the original Italian alongside his translation into English and provided a narrative thread and annotations for clarity. Included in this edition is a talk he gave to the Summer School at the University of Cape Town Summer Scho...

INFERNO V They enter the second circle, the first of Hell proper, which encloses less space, (chemenloco cinghia), than the previous one, but has so much greater pain, (tantopiùdolor). Minos, thejudge, guards the entrance, examines all the souls who are to enter and indicates to them to which circle they will descend.  Cosi discesi delcerchio primaio   And so I left the first, and to the ...