THE PORTABLE DANTE

As a philosopher, Dante wedded classical methods of enquiry to a Christianfaith. As an autobiographer, he looked at his own failures to depictuniversal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared to draw maps of Hell,Purgatory, and Paradise and populate all three realms with recognizablehuman beings. As a lover, he became a poet of bereavement andrenunciation. As all these things Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) paved theway for modern literature. This volume aims to capture the scope ofDante's genius. It contains complete verse translations of his twomasterworks, "The Divine Comedy" and "La Vita Nuova".