Purgatory (The Divine Comedy)

A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
 
Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy isarguably the greatest epic poem of all time—presenting Dante’s brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this second and perhaps most imaginative part of his masterwork, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in a continuation of his difficult ascent to purity. Anthony Esolen’s acclaimed translation of Inferno, Princeton professor James Richardson said, “follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. It is living writing.” This edition of Purgatory includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes—an invaluable guide for both general readers and students.

• Paradise (The Divine Comedy)
• Inferno (The Divine Comedy)
• Inferno (The Divine Comedy)
• The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics)
• In Defense of Reformed Catholic Worship: Book IV of Richard Hooker's Laws: A Modernization (Hooker's Laws in Modern English)
• The Institutes of Christian Religion
• St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi: With Introductions by Ralph McInerny and Joseph Pearce
• A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
• Bonaventure (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback)) (English and Latin Edition)
• The Canterbury Tales