The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete
1321
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete
1321
Translated by Henry Francis Cary
The final canticle of humanity's most ambitious vision of the afterlife. Dante ascends through the nine celestial spheres of Paradise, guided by the luminous Beatrice, toward the ultimate mystery: the face of God. Here, the suffering and moral reckoning of Inferno give way to pure intellectual joy as the pilgrim encounters souls perfected in grace, drinks from the wellsprings of knowledge, and grapples with the mathematics of love that moves the sun and other stars. The poetry burns with a different fire than the underworld's flames: luminous, abstract, sometimes terrifying in its abstraction. This is not merely a description of Heaven but an attempt to render the divine visible through language itself. Mandelbaum's celebrated translation captures the extraordinary music of Dante's terza rima, while forty-two Botticelli drawings and Montale's introduction frame a work that has defined Western civilization's sense of its own spiritual possibilities. For those who have descended into Hell and climbed the mountain of Purgatory, Paradise awaits.
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“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””
— Dante Alighieri
“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.””
— Dante Alighieri
“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.””
— Dante Alighieri
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.””
— Dante Alighieri
“Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain:Through me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric moved:To rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””
— Dante Alighieri
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.””
— Dante Alighieri
“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?””
— Dante Alighieri
“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ””
— Dante Alighieri
“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.””
— Dante Alighieri
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