Why should any e want to create yet another translation of the Divine Comedy? The answer, in this particular case, is that the decision that my wife and I made to commit ourselves to this demanding task occurred by chance in Florence in February 1997. I, a "Dante scholar," was preparing a revision of John Sinclair's prose translation for a computer project (the Princeton Dante Project, http:// www.princeton.edu/~dante/pdp). My wife, the poet Jean Hollander (whose work is represented ...