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The Inferno
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The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a beautifully accurate and clear verse translation of the first volume of Dante’s epic poem, the Divine Comedy. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and accessible introduction and generous commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship as well as Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and research. The Hollander translation is the new standard in English of this essential work of world literature.
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“This book made me so thankful that I'm not religious.”
“really loved all the biblical and mythological references but didn’t understand a ton lol”
“I wasn’t sure what I expected before reading Dante’s Inferno. Maybe a terrifying depiction of a Hell and all its friends? Idk. Either way, this book (poem?) is Dante shitting on his political opponents and anyone else who may have disagreed with him while simultaneously worshipping Virgil. Glad I read it. Culturally relevant even to this day.”
About Dante
ROBERT HOLLANDER has taught The Divine Comedy to Princeton students for thirty-nine years. He is the author of a dozen monographs, editions, and translations, and some six dozen articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other writers. A member of Princeton's Department of Romance Languages and the former chairman of its Department of Comparative Literature, he has received many awards, including the Gold Medal of the city of Florence in recognition of his Dante scholarship. JEAN HOLLANDER, his wife, is a poet, teacher, and director of the Writers' Conference at the College of New Jersey. They are at work translating Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso, and Doubleday will publish their complete Divine Comedy in 2002.
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