A review by jon288
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri

3.0

John Ciardi's Translation (New American Library) 1961. Definitely a lot more of a slog than the Inferno. I can see why most people stop at that one. I'm not going to bother with the Paradiso. There's a lot more thological allegory here, but much less crazy antics. Still plenty of digressions on medieval Italy, and discussions on morality etc that are hard to get through. Good translation though- it was well annotated. I'm not sure the poetry was fully captured though