There are masterpieces, such as Don Quixote, that the authors start without a precise or determined plan: they make virtue a necessity, curling the curl of invention. But the Comedy belongs to another category: it is the result of Dante's deliberation and perseverance. Exiled from Florence and condemned to the stake, he was even contumacious, insisting on the unforgivable "mistake" of creating something profoundly new and personal. Dramatic and tenebrous in Hell, pictorial and melancholic in Purgatory and luminous and musical in Paradise, Comedy is to the Modern Age what the Odyssey to Antiquity. This new translation of José María Micó, melodic and inspired, invites the Spanish-speaking reader to delve into the unique Dantesque universe and accompany the poet on his journey through the three otherworldly realms.
