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(MAZUR, MICHAEL.) Dante Alighieri. The Inferno of Dante. Translated by Robert Pinsky. 41 signed and numbered etchings by Mazur, 25 1/2x19 1/2 inches, sheets, on Arches Cover White paper, interleaved with the bilingual printed vellum sheets; laid into two portfolios of red cloth gilt, handmade by Harcourt Bindery, Boston; elephant folio clamshell box of red cloth with gilt-lettered black leather cover and spine labels, by Portfoliobox, Providence; elaborate bound prospectus laid in. (New York, 2002)
first deluxe edition. number 8 of only 50 sets signed by mazur from a total edition of 75. In a project that extended through the 1990s, painter/printmaker Michael Mazur and poet Robert Pinsky collaborated on the production of a new illustrated translation of The Inferno. Mazur said that in grappling with Dante, he reinvigorated his own artistic creativity. Pinsky, who became Poet Laureate of the United States in 1997, credited Mazur's imagery with deepening his own understanding of the poem. In a shift from the practice of earlier artists, Mazur did not show Dante travelling through hell; instead, he showed his interpretation of what Dante saw. Mazur's investigation of The Inferno involved a series produced in various mediums culminating in a grand portfolio of etchings, the entirety of which appears alongside a selection of Dante's verses translated by Pinsky--from the prospectus.
