About the Translators
ROBERT HOLLANDER
AND JEAN HOLLANDER
INFERNO
ROBERT HOLLANDER taught The Divine Comedy to Princeton students for forty-two years. He is the author of a dozen books and some eighty articles on Dante and/or Boccaccio. A member of Princeton’s Department of French and Italian and the former chairman of its Department of Comparative Literature, he has received many awards, including the Gold Medal of the city of Florence in recognition of his Dante scholarship.
JEAN HOLLANDER, his wife, is a poet, teacher, and was director of the Writers’ Conference at the College of New Jersey. She has published three books of her poems.