PARADISO is the third and final installment in Dante's Divine Comedy. His journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise, where he learns the sublime truths of divine will and eternal salvation, and where he, at last, sees a rapturous vision of God. Whereas Dante's experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, his journey in Paradiso is one of affirmation and, above all, love.

Robert and Jean Hollander's verse translation with facing-page Italian offers the dual virtues of maximum fidelity to Dante's text with the feeling necessary to give the English reader a sense of the work's poetic greatness in Italian. And since Robert Hollander's achievements as a Dante scholar are unsurpassed in the English-speaking world, the commentaries that accompany each canto offer superb guidance in comprehension and interpretation. This translation is also the text of the Princeton Dante Project Web site, an ambitious online project that offers a multimedia version of the Divine Comedy and links to other Dante Web sites. On every count, then, this edition of PARADISO is likely to be a touchstone for generations to come.</p>