Ian Thomson

Alasdair Gray gives us a vivid new Paradiso

His posthumously published rendering is a work of cadence and vigour which perfectly captures the rhythms and beauty of Dante’s original

Beatrice leading Dante in a 14th -century Venetian miniature of the Divine Comedy’s Paradise. Credit: Bridgeman Images 
issue 28 November 2020

  • Paradise: Dante’s Divine Trilogy, Part Three, Englished in Prosaic Verse

    Alasdair Gray

    Canongate, pp. 134, £14

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