Contributor(s): Author: Dante Alighieri Illustrator: Gustave Dore Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Most English translations of Inferno are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today\'s Modern standards.
Adding the illustrations by Gustave Dore brings this classic work to life..
This translation could easily be read and understood by today\'s reader.
This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern English.
Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version.
Contributor(s): Author: Dante Alighieri Illustrator: Gustave Dore Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Most English translations of Inferno are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today\'s Modern standards