Inferno: A New Verse Translation by Elio Zappulla

"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful—. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."—Washington Times

In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical ...