Inferno (Modern Library Series) – English translation Hardcover – October 15, 1996
Author: Visit ‘s Dante Page ID: 0679602097
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian
From the Back Cover
“Professor Esolen’s translation of Dante’s Inferno is the best one I have seen, for two reasons. His decision to use unrhymed blank verse allows him to come nearly as close to the meaning of the original as any prose reading could do, and allows him also to avoid the harrowing sacrifices that the demand for rhyme imposes on any translator. And his endnotes and other apparatus provoke answers to almost any question that could arise about the work.”
– A. Kent Hieatt, Professor Emeritus, Yale University
"Esolen’s brilliant translation captures the power and the spirit of a poem that does not easily give up its secrets. The notes and appendixes provide exactly the kind of help that most readers will need."
– Robert Royal, President, Faith and Reason Institute, author of Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy, Divine Spirituality
“Dante’s conversations with his mentor Virgil and the doomed shades are by turns assertive and abashed, irritated and pitying and inquisitive, and Anthony Esolen’s new translation renders them so sensitively that they seem to take place in the same room with us. It follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. This Inferno gives us Dante’s vivid drama and his verbal inventiveness. It is living writing.”
– James Richardson, Princeton University
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Series: Modern LibraryHardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Modern Library (October 15, 1996)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0679602097ISBN-13: 978-0679602095 Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces Best Sellers Rank: #589,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1690 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > European
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(Note: this review is for the book "The Inferno" translated by John Ciardi and published by Signet Classics in 2001.)
This is book one containing part one (or "canticle" one) of poet Dante Alighieri’s (1265 to 1321) three part "The Divine Comedy." This book describes Hell and the eternal suffering of the damned. This poem is comprised of 34 episodes (or "cantos").
Dante at the beginning of the poem explains why he has begun this journey:
"Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood."
Thus because Dante’s life journey has led him "astray from the straight road" (that is, from the straight and narrow), he now finds himself "in a dark wood" (that is, in Hell). Thus the journey through the nooks and crannies of Hell begins. Dante takes this incredible journey with his master and guide, Virgel. Along the way the reader along with the travelers encounters such things as mythical creatures and people, legends, people of Dante’s time, biblical people and references, and human victims.
Hell, according to Dante, has 4 complex parts:
(1) The Gate of Hell
(2) The first 7 stone ledges or "circles"
(3) The eighth circle which consists of ditches
(4) The nineth circle with Satan at its center
At the end of this long trek through Hell, Dante says, "My Guide and I crossed over and began / to mount that little known and lightless road / to ascend into the shining world again."
From here, they acsend "The Mount of Purgatory" (which is the subject of Book 2 containing Part 2 called "The Purgatorio").
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