Dante in Great Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
An article by Edoardo Crisafulli, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Kiev, was published in the journal Dante e l’arte on the reception and translation of Dante in Great Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The extraordinary popularity of Dante in Great Britain during that period – viewed through the eyes of Henry Francis Cary, who produced a canonical translation of the Divine Comedy, and William Blake, possibly the most famous poet-illustrator of Dante – throws light on the religious, political and aesthetic ideas that held sway during the period.
