"An exciting, vivid
Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."
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Chicago magazine
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."--
The Christian Science Monitor "Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."
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Book Review Digest