Full Description
In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the Inferno (34 cantos), this volume is divided into 33 cantos, written in tercets (groups of 3 lines). The English prose is arranged in tercets to facilitate easy correspondence to the verse form of the Italian on the facing page, enabling the reader to follow both languages line by line. In an effort to capture the peculiarities of Dante's original language, this translation strives toward the literal and sheds new light on the shape of the poem. Again the text of Purgatorio follows Petrocchi's La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, but the editor has departed from Petrocchi's readings in a number of cases, somewhat larger than in the previous Inferno, not without consideration of recent critical readings of the Comedy by scholars such as Lanza (1995, 1997) and Sanguineti (2001). As before, Petrocchi's punctuation has been lightened and American norms have been followed. However, without any pretensions to being "critical", the text presented here is electic and being not persuaded of the exclusive authority of any manuscript, the editor has felt free to adopt readings from various branches of the stemma. One major addition to this second volume is in the notes, where is found the Intercantica - a section for each canto that discusses its relation to the Inferno and which will make it easier for the reader to relate the different parts of the Comedy as a whole.
Contents
CONTENTS Abbreviations, xv Introduction, 2 PARADISO CANTO 1 Notes to Canto 1 CANTO 2 Notes to Canto 2 CANTO 3
Notes to Canto 3 CANTO 4
Notes to Canto 4 CANTO 5
Notes to Canto 5 CANTO 6
Notes to Canto 6 CANTO 7
Notes to Canto 7 CANTO 8
Notes to Canto 8 CANTO 9
Notes to Canto 9 CANTO 10
Notes to Canto 10 CANTO 11
Notes to Canto 11 CANTO 12
Notes to Canto 12 CANTO 13
Notes to Canto 13 CANTO 14
Notes to Canto 14 CANTO 15
Notes to Canto 15 CANTO 16
Notes to Canto 16 CANTO 17
Notes to Canto 17 CANTO 18
Notes to Canto 18 CANTO 19
Notes to Canto 19 CANTO 20
Notes to Canto 20 CANTO 21
Notes to Canto 21 CANTO 22
Notes to Canto 22 CANTO 23
Notes to Canto 23 CANTO 24
Notes to Canto 24 CANTO 25
Notes to Canto 25 CANTO 26
Notes to Canto 26 CANTO 27
Notes to Canto 27 CANTO 28
Notes to Canto 28 CANTO 29
Notes to Canto 29 CANTO 30
Notes to Canto 30 CANTO 31
Notes to Canto 31 CANTO 32
Notes to Canto 32 CANTO 33
Notes to Canto 33 THE NICENE CREED BOETHIUS' O QUI PERPETUA MUNDUM RATIONE GUBERNAS Notes to "O qui perpetua' ADDITIONAL NOTES 1. The Figure of Beatrice (After Canto 2)
2. The Paradiso and the Monarchia
3.The Primacy of the Intellect, the Sun, and the Circling Theologians (After Canto 14)
4. Dante and the Liturgy (After Canto 15)
5. The Religious Orders in the Paradiso 6. The Threshold Cantos in the Comedy 7. The Fate of Phaethon in the Comedy 8. Circle-Cross-Eagle-Scales: Images in the Paradiso
9. The Final Image 10. The Neoplatonic Background
11. Dante and Neoplatonism
12. Dante's Astrology
13. The Heavens and the Sciences: Convivio 2
14. The Paradiso as Alpha and Omega Textual Variants
Bibliography
Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Foreign Words Discussed in the Notes
Index of Passages Cited in the Notes
Index of Proper Names in the Notes
Index of Proper Names in the Text and Translation
