| Date: | Thu, Oct 16, 2025 |
| Time: | 5 PM EDT |
| Location: | Online |
| Find out more: | Zoom event registration |
Join D. M. Black for a discussion of his new translation of Paradiso by Dante Alighieri with scholar, critic, and writer Edward Mendelson.
Paradiso, the final volume of the Divine Comedy, is “Dante’s genius at its most indisputable” (Harold Bloom). It also remains the most under-appreciated of the three canticles, despite its extraordinary virtuosity and range of expression. The culmination of Dante’s own life’s work, Paradiso describes nothing short of epiphany, a soul finding its place and purpose.
D.M. Black’s blank verse translation and commentary, which draws on Black's training as a psychoanalyst, follows his rendition of Purgatorio (NYRB Classics, 2021), which won the 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry.
This event will be held virtually via Zoom. Register here.