ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). Dante's Inferno Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets. Daniel Halpern, editor. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1993.

Folio. Etched frontispiece plate printed in brown and black by Francesco Clemente numbered "42/125" and SIGNED BY CLEMENTE, laid in as issued. Original black morocco-backed red linen, spine gilt-lettered and with blindstamp of the Ecco Press, uncut, bound by Claudio Cohen (limitation page); original slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 42 of 145 copies of the "Deluxe issue," SIGNED BY ALL 20 POETS WHO CONTRIBUTED A TRANSLATION, including Alfred Corn, Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass, Seamus Heaney, Richard Howard, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, and others. This collaborative translation into English of Dante's Inferno, "one of Western literature's great adventure stories," was achieved by all the poets, who "arrived individually at a solution... finding, as it were, their own Virgil for the work at hand--whether via terza rima, some echo of that prosodic sound, a modified rhyme scheme, blank verse or free verse" (Preface, p. vii).

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