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Inferno

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Inferno
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dante
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
SeriesThe Divine Comedy
Series part Volume No. 1
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:528
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 132
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780812970067
ClassificationsDewey:851.1
Audience
General
Illustrations 12 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Modern Library Inc
Publication Date 9 December 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

This is a new prose translation of Dante's epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special subjects at the end of the book.

Author Biography

Anthony Esolen is a published poet and professor of English at Providence College who has written extensively on Renaissance and medieval literature. His translations include the three volumes of The Divine Comedy-Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise-Lucretius's De rerum natura, and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata.

Reviews

"Professor Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno is the best one I have seen. . . . And his endnotes and other additions provoke answers to almost any question that could arise about the work." -A. Kent Hieatt, translator of The Canterbury Tales "Crisp and clear, Esolen's version avoids two modern temptations: a slavish literalness to the Italian or a taking of liberties in the attempt to make this greatest of medieval poems esthetically modern. . . . In addition to his scholarly tact, Esolen is simply one of the most vigorous English translators of Dante ever."-Crisis magazine "Esolen's new translation follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. This Inferno gives us Dante's vivid drama and his verbal inventiveness. It is living writing." -James Richardson, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University "Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan."-William Dean Howells, The Nation