"Last week," Miss Bennet said, folding her hands behind her, "for one of our three excerpts, we read Dante's Inferno . Or rather -- since I am hardly cruel enough to ask you to read all of Dante's Inferno in one sitting -- Canto XXVII. And if we wish to be precise, what we read was James Finn Cotter 's translation of Dante's Inferno , a work written in Dante's native language, Italian. James Finn Cotter is hardly the only person to have translated Dante; I might have selected Henry Wadsworth... read more