Allen Mandelbaum

Allen Mandelbaum was born in 1926 and died in 2011. His translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo, and Ungaretti were all published to great acclaim. His rendering of The Aeneid won the National Book Award. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.

Author Contributions

The Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses

Ovid; Translated by Allen Mandelbaum; Introduction by J. C. McKeown
Three Centuries of American Poetry

Three Centuries of American Poetry

Edited by Allen Mandelbaum & Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri; Translated by Allen Mandelbaum; Introduction by Eugenio Montale; Annotations by Peter Armour
The Odyssey of Homer Purgatorio

Purgatorio

Dante Alighieri
Inferno

Inferno

Dante Alighieri; Translated by Allen Mandelbaum.
The Aeneid of Virgil