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The Purgatorio (John Ciardi Translation) Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

What he does recognize is how many leaders of the Church are in this circle; no wonder the world goes wrong, he says later in Purgatory, if those who are supposed to guide us all to the bliss of union with God are themselves obsessed with material things. I owe Professor MacAllister a glad thanks for what is certainly the essential clarification. So I started “Midway in our life's journey” and continued from there, down into the Inferno. Feb 21, 2007 - I'll be doing roughly two posts a week in the Dante series throughout Lent, with each post covering a thematic section of the Commedia, working from the beginning of the Inferno through Purgatorio and Paradiso. May 8, 2014 - Somehow we had John Ciardi's three-volume verse translation on our shelves. Nov 6, 2007 - Two points from Ciardi's translation that I found fascinating and beautiful. John Ciardi's Allen Mandelbaum's Anthony Esolen's Pinsky's of the Inferno. The whole Purgatorio, he points out, is build upon the structure of a Mass. Sayers translation is so creakily Anglo-early-20th-century that its hard to take seriously as the work of an Italian. A guide for those who wish to read the English translation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. This is the translation of John Ciardi. The Mass moreover is happening not on the mountain but in church with Dante devoutly following its well-known steps. At the end of Canto IX, Dante and Virgil enter purgatory John Ciardi.