The Inferno of Dante (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dante
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Principal Characters: The Pilgrim, Virgil, The sinners of Hell’s circles
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Voyages, Sin or Original sin, Poetry or poets, Christianity, Hell, Allegory, Pilgrims or pilgrimages
Any new English translation of Dante’s allegorical poem on life, death, and redemption needs to justify itself immediately and to support its claim to existence consistently, since the versions in print are many and varied. Scholars have relied upon the six-volume major edition of La divina commedia (c. 1320; The Divine Comedy) by Charles S. Singleton, which contains the Italian text, full commentary, and English translation, since its appearance in 1970. The three-volume prose translation of the entire poem with précis for each canto and notes by John D. Sinclair first...
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