Paradiso (Simone Edition)

"The Paradiso concludes Simone's excellent translation of Dante's Commedia. Consistent with the previous two volumes, the translation is accurate and graceful, and Simone’s introductions and apparatus provide a helpful entrée to the text, especially for first-time readers who are one of its primary audiences." —William Stephany, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont

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Dante
Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Tom Simone

September 2017
Imprint: Focus - 304 pp.

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Paper 978-1-58510-858-9
$19.95
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$3.00

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"The Paradiso concludes Simone's excellent translation of Dante's Commedia. Consistent with the previous two volumes, the translation is accurate and graceful, and Simone’s introductions and apparatus provide a helpful entrée to the text, especially for first-time readers who are one of its primary audiences."
         —William Stephany, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont

Review of Tom Simone’s Inferno translation:

"Tom Simone's translation is simply superb. Of all the translations with which I am familiar, this is the one that is the most faithful to what's there in the Italian: no frills, no poetic sallies, no choosing a word because it brings the line closer to iambic pentameter—just unadulterated Dante with good old Anglo-Saxon words and in highly readable prose."
     —Peter Kalkavage, St. John's University


About the Author:

Tom Simone has taught at the University of Vermont for more than thirty years. He is the author of books on Shakespeare and on the beginnings of the Western Tradition, as well as numerous articles on Joyce, Beckett, Shakespeare on film, and the history of recorded classical music. He has also translated Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio for the Focus imprint of Hackett Publishing Company.