From Longfellow to Mary Jo Bang: 150 Years of Translating the Inferno Into American English
Translations · 1800 words · Updated with expanded scholarship America’s Strange Obsession With Translating Dante Here is a paradox worth sitting with: the United States, a country with no medieval Catholic heritage, no Romance language in its founding culture, and a constitutional suspicion of Old World hierarchies, has produced more significant English translations of Dante’s … Read more