Inferno - Paperback

by Dante Alighieri (Author), Anthony Esolen (Translator), Gustave Dore (Illustrator)

Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Dor

A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences.

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A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences.

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.