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Satire: Modern-day translation of "The Inferno"

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Date: 20010401
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Satire: Modern-day translation of "The Inferno"

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Since its publication almost 700 years ago, "The Inferno" by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri has been translated dozens of times into dozens of languages. But no translation has been as relevant to the modern age as this one by Kevin Underhill. Here it is in a dramatized form.

KEVIN UNDERHILL:

Midway in the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. When I reached the foot of a hill, there where ...

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