INFERNO (LONGFELLOW TRANS)（ISBN=9780812967210）

　　In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first Americantranslation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante's literary genius to theNew World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leadsDante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journeytoward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vividdetail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment.HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, American poet, educator, andlinguist, wrote many long narrative poems, including The Song ofHiawatha, Evangeline, and The Courtship of Miles Standish.MATTHEW PEARL is the author of the novel The Dante Club, pub-lished by Random House, and is a graduate of Harvard University andYale Law School. In 1998 he won the prestigious Dante Prize fromthe Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He lives in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts.
　　LINO PERTILE is a professor of Romance languages and literature atHarvard University. He specializes in Dante and the Latin Middle Ages.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
PREFACE by Matthew Pearl
INTRODUCTION by Lino Pertile
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
INFERNO
CANTO I
　The Dark Foresc--The Hill of Difficulty.--the Panther, the Lion,
　and the Wolf.--Virgil
CANTO II
　Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal.--The Intercession of the
　Three Ladies Benedight
CANTO III
　The Gate of Hell.--The Inefficient or Indifferenc--Pope Celes-
　tine V.--The Shores of Acheron.--Charon.--The Earthquake and
　the Swoon
CANTO IV
　The First Circle.--Limbo, or the Border Land of the Unbaptized.-
　The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan.--The Noble
　Castle of Philosophy
CANTO V
　The  Second  Circle.--Minos.--The  Wanton.--The  Infernal
　Hurricane.--Francesca da Rimini
CANTO VI
　The Third Circle.--Cerberus.--The Gluttonous.--The Eternal
　Rain.--Ciacco
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