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The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

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  • Format: Paperback, 656 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: July 12, 1955
  • Price: $12.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-394-70126-4 (0-394-70126-7)
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For this Modern Library edition of Dante's Divine Comedy the standard translations have been followed: Inferno, by John Aitken Carlyle; Purgatorio, by Thomas Okey; Paradiso, by Philip H. Wicksteed. The Notes (edited for this edition by Julie Eidesheim) follow, in the main, the notes for the Inferno and Purgatorio by Dr. H. Oelsner, and those prepared jointly by Dr. Oelsner and Philip H. Wicksteed for the Paradiso.