Dante

Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later called "Divina" (divine) by Boccaccio hence "Divina Commedia"), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.


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The Inferno of Dante

Dante; A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky; Illustrated by Michael Mazur; Forward by John Freccero
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of...


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