To Hell and Back: An anthology of Dante's Inferno in English translation (1782–2017)
Tim Smith and Marco Sonzogni
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) maintained that translation destroys the harmony of poetry. Yet his Commedia has been translated into English time and again over the last two-and-a-bit centuries. At last count, one-hundred and twenty-nine different translators have published at least one canticle of… read more[Not in series, 212] 2017. xx, 295 pp.