In what is generally considered the supreme masterpiece of Western literature, Dante describes his journey through heaven, hell and purgatory, guided by the spirit of Virgil. This journey becomes symbolic of the universal quest for wisdom, as the soul mounts from darkness to light, from damnation to salvation. Printed here in the superb new translation by Allen Mandelbaum, introduced by the Nobel prizewinning poet Eugenio Montale, and accompanied by Botticelli’s magnificent and little-known drawings, this complete text of Dante’s poem is provided with notes which make it available to every reader.

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