Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't ...

In the text, it is Dante himself navigating Hell. The text provokes profound questions of struggle and aspiration. A masterpiece in its own right, Dante's 'Inferno' forces readers to interrogate ...

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new translations of his work out now, it's worth asking - why do ...