Translation of Dante's Inferno: Canto I, 1–12 I was practicing some Italian when I suddenly found myself reading some Dante. Off the easy path I had gone; But O!—How beautiful. I wished badly to convey the eloquence of his meter, but the translations I found were only pallid copies. The thought then came to me: that I would speak for to what I had witnessed, even if it means mixing it with my…