The Divine Comedy

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This vivid new translation of Dante's immortal classic </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Inferno </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>opens a new vista and offers a fresh experience of this milestone in human literary genius. Throughout his life Dante struggled with the question of how to convey the solemn gravity of the Latin classics into the vulgar language of his native Italy. At the same time he was convinced that the vernacular of his time and place had color and vibrancy that the heady more cerebral classic literature lacked. Writing the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Inferno </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>was Dante's breakthrough moment in wedding these two very different personalities of poetic expression. Jason Baxter's new pulsing rhythmic translation is alive with spiritual energy from both these streams. Here we have an </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Inferno </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>that we feel in our nerves and in our blood as well as in the heart and head.</span></p><p><br></p>