Dante's Inferno
The first volume of Musa's core Divine Comedy translation sequence and his best-known entry point.
Author guide
Mark Louis Musa (1934–2014) was an American scholar of Italian literature, translator, editor, and longtime Indiana University professor. A Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he wrote and edited extensively on Dante, Renaissance literature, literary criticism, language pedagogy, and translation. His major projects include translations and critical editions of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Pirandello, as well as original poetry and criticism.
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The first volume of Musa's core Divine Comedy translation sequence and his best-known entry point.
A standalone critical introduction to Dante's Comedy for readers who want context before reading the translation.
Read in order
sequence · complete
Mark Musa's standalone translations of Dante's three cantiche, originally issued by Indiana University Press.
Outside the series
literary_criticism · 1974
poetry_collection · 2010
translation_and_edited_collection · 1977
translation · 1984
translated_selection · 1985
textbook · 1965
translation · 1996