The Mechanics Institute already has numerous different English translations of Dante Alighieri's 3-part set of narrative poems -- The Divine Comedy. Although we already have the award-winning blank verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum, we recently acquired another edition of his translation, this one with an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale as well as notes by Peter Armour, professor of Italian at Royal Holloway College, University of London. The illustrations provide another unique attribute of our new acquisition: reproductions of 42 drawings by Botticelli.
The divine comedy Everyman's Library, 1995, 851 D19ma
(Illustration: Dante bathing in the river Eunoe by Botticelli)
