The Paradiso (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Name: The Paradiso (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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by Dante Alighieri

Peter Bondanella (Introduction), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator), Julia Conaway Bondanella (Introduction), and Gustave Dore (Illustrator)

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The Paradiso (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

by Dante Alighieri

Peter Bondanella (Introduction), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator), Julia Conaway Bondanella (Introduction), and Gustave Dore (Illustrator)

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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ISBN13 9781593083175
Publish Date 1 April 2006
Publish Status Out of Stock
Out of Print 5 December 2023
Publish Country US
Imprint Fine Communications,US

Format Paperback (US Trade)
Pages 448
Language English

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My dilemma since the early years of Sunday school: hell is more interesting than paradise. Thus, true to form, though I wanted to be contrary, The Inferno is more interesting than any amount of heavenly light (so bright! so much dancing!), but get to that last line and you can’t help but feel the awe and poetry of it:

The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.