Inferno2000
The scholar’s Inferno in English. Robert Hollander, a lifelong Dante man, supplies the fidelity and the vast commentary while the poet Jean Hollander shapes the blank-verse line, and the facing-page Italian makes it a genuine study edition. It is the version to read when you want to be sure what Dante actually wrote, with every allusion tracked, though the apparatus dwarfs the poem and the verse is more accurate than it is stirring. Less a first read than the one you graduate to.