title: Dante: Inferno: Translated Into English With Notes And Commentary By Frank Salvidio
author: Frank Salvidio
description: Frank Salvidio?s lifelong devotion to Dante includes his doctoral dissertation, Dante, Milton and Kazantzakis, his first book, Between Troy &amp; Florence, and his translation of Dante?s Vita Nuova. Also a translator of Sappho (Sappho Says), he was educated at Columbia (BS, philosophy) AIC (MA, education) and UCONN (MA, PHD, English).
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  In trying to understand the structure of Dr. Lecter’s memory palace, I was
  aided by Frances A. Yates’s remarkable book _The Art of Memory_ , as well as
  Jonathan D. Spence’s _The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci_.
  
  
  Robert Pinsky’s translation of _Dante’s Inferno_ was a boon and a pleasure to
  use, as were the annotations of Nicole Pinsky The term “festive skin” is
  Pinsky’s translation of Dante.
  
  
  Dr. Lecter’s lecture to the Studiolo owes much to Anthony K. Cassell’s
  distinguished work of scholarship, _Dante’s Fearful Art of Justice_.
  
  
  “In the garden of the hurricane’s eye” is John Ciardi’s phrase and the title
  of one of his poems.
  
  
  The first lines of poetry Clarice Starling recalls in the asylum are from T.
  S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton,” _Four Quartets_.
  
  
  My thanks to Pace Barnes for her encouragement, support and wise counsel.
  
  
  Carole Baron, my publisher, editor and friend, helped me make this a better
  book.
  
  
  Athena Varounis and Bill 