Author: Robin Kirkpatrick

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With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always …

With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always …

This is the first comprehensive critical comparison of English and Italian literature from the three centuries from Dante to Shakespeare. It begins by examining Chaucer”s relationship with Dante, Pe …

This is the first comprehensive critical comparison of English and Italian literature from the three centuries from Dante to Shakespeare. It begins by examining Chaucer”s relationship with Dante, Pe …

Discover Dante’s original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante’s descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate …

Describing Dante’s descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing on …

In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to …

Robin Kirkpatrick’s masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of …

Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person is a pilgrimage to rediscover the spiritual and humanizing benefit of the Commedia. Treating each cantica of the poem, this volume offers profound med …

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Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul …

‘I truly thought I’d never make it back.’Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante’s Inferno.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin’s 80th birthday. Little Blac …

‘Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!’A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in th …