Robert Hollander

Hollander was born in Manhattan in 1933. His father was a financier and his mother was a nurse. He graduated from Collegiate School in 1951. Hollander received a B.A. in French and English from Princeton University in 1955 and a Ph.D from Columbia University's department of English and Comparative Literature in 1962. == Career ==

Hollander began teaching at Princeton University in 1962, eventually taking emeritus status as a professor in 2003. This was one of the first instances of computer technology being used in literature studies, and encouraged more advances in digital humanities. Forty years later, literature scholar Jeffrey Schnapp called the project a "go-to tool." Hollander was elected president of the Dante Society of America from 1979 to 1985. He was head of Princeton University's Butler College from 1991 to 1995 and chair of their Department of Comparative Literature from 1994 to 1998. In 1997, Robert and Jean Hollander began working on an English translation of the Divine Comedy. The couple's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso were released in 2000, 2003, and 2007 respectively. The translation was critically acclaimed, with novelist Tim Parks calling their Inferno “the finest of them all” == Personal life ==

Robert and Jean Hollander (née Haberman) met as graduate students at Columbia University. Jean Hollander died in 2019. From 1977 onwards, Hollander's former students had an annual tradition of returning to the professor's former classroom and reading from Dante's Divine Comedy together. == Death and legacy ==

Hollander died on April 20, 2021, at his son's home in Pa'auilo, Hawaii. == Awards and honors ==

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1970 • National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, 1982-83 • Gold medal of the City of Florence, 1988 • John Witherspoon Award in the Humanities, 1988 == Publications ==

Books • ''Allegory in Dante's "Commedia."'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. • ''Boccaccio's Two Venuses''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. • Studies in Dante. Ravenna: Longo, 1980. • Il Virgilio dantesco: tragedia nella "Commedia." [The Dantean Virgil: Tragedy in the “Comedy”] Translated by Anna Maria Castellini & Margherita Frankel. Florence: Olschki, 1983. • ''Boccaccio's Last Fiction: "Il Corbaccio."'' Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. • ''Dante's Epistle to Cangrande''.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. • ''Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. • Dante Alighieri. Rome: Marzorati-Editalia, 2000. • Dante. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001. (Paperback reprint, 2015.) • The Elements of Grammar in Ninety Minutes. New York: Dover Publications, 2011. Translations All of the following co-written with Jean Hollander • Dante, Inferno. Doubleday, 2000. (Anchor paperback edition: 2002.) • Dante, Purgatorio. Doubleday, 2003. (Anchor paperback edition: 2004.) • Dante, Paradiso. Doubleday, 2007. (Anchor paperback edition: 2008.) Articles • Robert Hollander (Translating Dante into English Again and Again) and Jean Hollander (Getting Just a Small Part of it Right). In: Ronald de Roy (ed.): Divine Comedies for the New Millennium. Recent Dante Translations in America and the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. pp. 43-54. == See also ==