Critical Insights: The Inferno

The contributors to this new volume are in the main Dante scholars of great importance, especially in Anglophone circles, whether in new work or reprints of seminal scholarship over decades. Essays include a close reading of Dante, a chapter comparing and contrasting Dante's Inferno to his other writing, a history of the critical response to his work, and a chapter on the cultural and historical context of Dante's Inferno.