Inferno - Hardcover

Dante Alighieri; Hollander, Jean; Hollander, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385496974 ISBN 13: 9780385496971

Publisher: Doubleday, 2001

Synopsis

The most cogent English translation of Dante's classic poem in years brings the epic poem of hell into the modern English language with subtle shadings of meaning intact.

About this title

Review:

"The most accessible and the closest to the Italian...with ample commentary easily and unobtrusively available at the end of each Canto."-Tim Parks, The New Yorker

"The Hollanders...act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us through the Italian text that is printed on the facing page."-The Economist

"Probably the most finely accomplished and may well prove the most enduring.... The annotation...is crowded with useful insights and bits of information and keeps us abreast of scholarly opinion across the ages."-R.W.B. Lewis, Los Angeles Times Book Review

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385496974
• ISBN 13: 9780385496971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 634