What poem does The Dante Club and Inferno have in common?
The Dante Club The Dante Club is a mystery novel by Matthew Pearl and his debut work, set amidst a series of murders in the American Civil War era. It also concerns a club of poets, including such historical figures as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell, who are translating Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" from Italian into English and who notice parallels between the murders and the punishments detailed in Dante's "Inferno".
Charles Cayley Charles Bagot Cayley (1823–1883) was an English linguist, best known for translating Dante into the metre of the original, with annotations. He also made metrical versions of the "Iliad", the "Prometheus" of Æschylus, the "Canzoniere" of Petrarch.