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by Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wentworth Arndt
The Inferno, the first book of Dante's Divine Comedy, chronicles his fascinating journey through all the levels of Hell to witness the punishments of the damned as part of his program of personal transformation. Stephen Wentworth Arndt has produced a unique translation of this classic medieval epic, using iambic pentameter for Dante's eleven-syllable line, his interlocking triplet rhyme pattern (terza rima), modern diction, and normal word order in a translation highly faithful to the sense of the original. Furthermore, he employs perfect rhymes throughout-a feat one prominent Dante translator declared "apparently impossible." To the best of our knowledge, he is the first and only translator to have done so in the 400-year history of Dante translations into English. This masterful translation comes with a prose summary of each canto and concise notes to identify the numerous persons and places mentioned in the poem but unfamiliar to the modern reader.
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