num_pages: 288
description: "Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third."--T.S. EliotOne of the great masterpieces of all time, Dante's Inferno, now newly translated by John Ciardi for the modern reader, is the magnificent story of a man's way through the infinite torment of Hell in his search for Paradise."This translation of the Inferno is the most lucid one I've read...a version definitive for our time."--Dudley Fitts"...a text with clarity and sobriety of a first prose translation which at the same time suggests in powerful and unmistakable ways the run and rhythm of the great original...a spectacular achievement."--Archibald MacLeish
language: English
title: The Inferno
titlecomplete: The Inferno
characters: Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Beatrice (diverse works), Francesca, Odysseus, Charon (mythology), Dante Alighieri, Paolo
genres: Fiction, Medieval, Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Fantasy, Italian Literature, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 174822
series: La Divina Commedia
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: New American Library