Robin Kirkpatrick

About The Author

Robin Kirkpatrick is Professor emeritus of Italian and English Literatures at the University of Cambridge. He was an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford and has been a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge since 1978. He has written widely on Dante’s work, and his verse translation of the Commedia is published by Penguin in a variety of editions.

Books by Robin Kirkpatrick

The Divine Comedy

Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

By Dante Alighieri
Foreword by Robin Kirkpatrick / Illustrated by Gustave Doré
Dante’s masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless art of Gustave Doré. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice, journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the soul through the Afterlife, with the subtle engraving of Doré’s illustrations perfectly complementing t...
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