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Dante Alighieri (Author) Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova. He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321. Virginia Jewiss (Translator) Virginia Jewiss is a Dante scholar and a translator who works as a lecturer at Yale University and is the director of the Yale Humanities in Rome program. She has translated works by Luigi Pirandello, Roberto Saviano, and Melania Mazzucco. She lives in Rome and Washington, D.C.
This brilliant translation faithfully renders the complexity of Dante's autobiographical novel and, with rare expertise, wonderfully brings to light the deliberate ambiguities of his poetry. Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
