I would warmly recommend D. M. Black’s translation of Dante’s Paradiso, both to people who already know and love Dante and to those who don’t but are ready to take on a long poem of medieval religious vision. I hope my discussion will show the nature of the work’s contents to people who haven’t read Paradiso in any translation, and that my quotations will give those who do know it already a flavour of Black’s particular style. I’ll say a bit more about this at the end of the piece.

Paradiso is of course the third and culminating section or cantica … Continue Reading