Iconic Italian writer Dante Alighieri penned his classic text 'Inferno' during the 14th century, the first part of his famed ...

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 ...

The fragment certainly then belongs in the "special section" of my Illustrations to Dante's Inferno (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994) and among the dozen or so works treated in my "The ...

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 concentrate on three lines at a time ...