The Portable Dante

He married classical methods of research to the Christian faith as a philosopher. As an autobiographer he was unflinching in his portrayal of universal hardships. He dared to sketch maps of Hell Purgatory and Paradise and fill all three regions with recognizable human beings as a visionary. He became a poet of bereavement and renunciation as a passionate lover. Dante Alighieri as all of these laid the way for contemporary literature by writing verse and prose that are unrivaled in informal grace intellectual depth and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante is a single volume that catches the sweep and fire of Dante's genius as well as any other. It includes poetic translations of The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova as well as a bibliography comments and an introduction by Mark Musa a distinguished scholar and translator.