Set · The Dante Curriculum
The Divine Comedy
The Texts & Reader’s Guides
Translated, with the guides, by Joe Carlson
This bundle includes Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, as well as the Reader’s Guides that accompany each. Total of 6 books.
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I · Read · IncludedThe Text
II · Study · IncludedThe Reader’s Guides
III · LearnThe Video Course
III · TeachThe Teacher’s EditionOr all of it in one order: the Complete Curriculum, with the Interlinear, the eBooks and the audiobooks.
Read the poem, study the guide
Each canticle comes with its Reader’s Guide: the text in Joe Carlson’s blank verse translation, with a summary before every canto, and beside it a guide giving the characters, the setting, notes, an analysis and discussion questions for every canto.
The set we recommend for every student. Add the lectures and the Teacher’s Edition when you are ready to teach.
Six books: each canticle with its guide
Inside the books
The translation
The Reader’s Guide
See more first? Read the free Dante Sampler: Inferno III from every part of the curriculum.
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“To accompany his smooth and literate translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Joe Carlson has put together a series of excellent Reader’s Guides that provide the necessary historical, literary, philosophical, and theological background.”
Dr. Joe Carlson
Joe Carlson holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Culture from New Saint Andrews College, and an MA in Humanities and a PhD in Literature from the University of Dallas. He is a Senior Editor with Roman Roads Press and a Literature professor at New Saint Andrews College.
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The poem in one volume or three, a guide to every canto, the lectures, the Teacher’s Edition, an interlinear, audiobooks read by the translator, and all of Dante’s prose. The most complete Dante in English, in one place.