The Inferno
A New Verse Translation
Published on 11. April 2017
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-62872-745-6 (ISBN)
Description
"First published by Barbican Press in Great Britain in 2016"--Title page verso.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Skyhorse Publishing
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 4 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62872-745-6 (9781628727456)
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Peter Thornton attended a Jesuit prep school in Manhattan, where the curriculum was based on Latin and Greek. After graduating from Boston College, he earned his PhD from Stanford University. He taught college English for several years before becoming a lawyer. The intellectual rigor of the law did not satisfy his hunger for poetry and he has spent decades translating the works of Dante and Petrarch into English verse. He currently resides in Evanston, Illinois.
Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, became one of the leading lyric poets in Italy as a young man. He was exiled for political reasons, and in the last fifteen years of his life composed The Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the most-read part today.
Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, became one of the leading lyric poets in Italy as a young man. He was exiled for political reasons, and in the last fifteen years of his life composed The Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the most-read part today.