The inferno
By: Dante Alighieri ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Anthony Esolen ; illustrations by Gustave Doré.
Contributors: Esolen, Anthony M.; Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883.
Edition: 2002 Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 490
Work titles: Inferno.
Description: "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 new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: In English and Italian on opposite pages.