“We’re living in a golden age of Dante translation. Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky touched it off when he published an excellent, widely acclaimed verse translation of the Inferno in 1995. In just the last year, five new editions of the Inferno have appeared, including a reprint of Longfellow’s landmark version. Still more surprising, there are three new translations of the much less popular Purgatorio, the second of the Comedy’s three ‘canticles.’ And the torrent doesn’t stop there.”