Inferno
Inferno by Dante, translated by Anthony Esolen, is a bilingual edition published by Random House Publishing Group on October 25, 2005. This 560-page work presents an extraordinary new verse translation of Dante’s classic, capturing the poem’s intricate structure and profound themes. Esolen’s translation aims to marry the musicality of the original text with its philosophical depth, allowing readers to engage with Dante’s exploration of sin and morality.
In this edition, readers will find not only the translated text but also a critical introduction and endnotes that provide context and insight into Dante’s influences, including significant figures such as Virgil and Saint Thomas Aquinas. The appendices further illuminate the religious themes that permeate the work, making it a valuable resource for both general readers and those studying poetry, epic narratives, and religious literature. This translation seeks to resonate with a diverse audience, from casual readers to educators and students, ensuring that Dante’s vision remains accessible and relevant.
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An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante’s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem’s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.
Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante’s most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians—that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.
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