The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 1 Text - The Divine Comedy Condition:Well Read the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out

the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out villages and demented victims in their wake

which are understood too late

unless the trials kill her first

Like Manhattan itself

That’s how it seems to me

The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 1 Text - The Divine Comedy Condition:Well Read the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-outThis splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary