The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers' Encounter with Dante

Dorothy L. Sayers, detective novelist, poet, scholar, playwright and Christian apologist, spent the last fourteen years of her life reading and translating Dante's Divine Comedy. The first two volumes of her translation, Hell and Purgatory, were published during her lifetime, but when she died in 1957 the third volume, Paradise, was unfinished. It was completed by her friend Barbara Reynolds.