Ma qui la morta poesì resurga, 'here let poetry rise from the dead,' prays the narrator Dante: a wish richly fulfilled in Lombardo's renderings, whose unprepossessing dignity and clarity give an authentic sense of the enduring beauty of the Tuscan original. This new translation of the Purgatorio continues the project that was so splendidly launched by Lombardo's Inferno. The translation itself is presented with the original text in facing pages, and is accompanied by clear-headed introductory material and helpful notes.