num_pages: 384
description: 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 American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is also unique, student-friendly, and faithful to the original: "A brilliant success," as Bernard Knox wrote in The New York Review of Books .
language: Italian
title: The Inferno of Dante
titlecomplete: The Inferno of Dante
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: 174829
series: La Divina Commedia
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux