The Paradiso

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by Dante Alighieri,

Translated by Allen Mandelbaum

Bantam Doubleday Dell

Due/Published February 1986, 464 pages, paper

ISBN 0553212044

, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.