Books By Dante Alighieri, Burton Raffel, Henry L. Carrigan - Author

Dante Alighieri (1265 1321) was born in Florence to a prominent family and trained as a pharmacist. He fought in the Battle of Campaldino and was active in the internecine Florentine politics of the time, which resulted in his exile. During this time, he began writing Commedia, which he finished shortly before his death in Ravenna.

Burton Raffel is a translator, a poet, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent translations are the Modern Library edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the Penguin edition of the Poema de mìo Cid. He has translated the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, most of Horace's poems, and Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel.