The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 1 Text - The Divine Comedy Condition:Well Read which are understood too late

which are understood too late

There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery

Like Manhattan itself

unless the trials kill her first

The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 1 Text - The Divine Comedy Condition:Well Read which are understood too lateThis splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary