Confessions of a Dante dilettante: I’ve dipped into Inferno over the years, fascinated to discover how Bosch’s triptych might have been influenced by Dante’s trilogy. But the awkward translations to English were discouraging, until I was recently introduced to a flowing, fluent verse translation that manages to preserve Dante’s terza rima. By Angelaurelio Soldi, a poet and native Italian speaker.
