The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University and has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. His translations include The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz and The Inferno of Dante; his poetry collections include At the Foundling Hospital and The Figured Wheel (winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize); and his nonfiction includes Poetry and the World and The Sounds of Poetry.

Artist Michael Mazur (1935-2009) won acclaim for his illustrations of The Inferno of Dante, which became the subject of a traveling exhibition.