Dante's Inferno - The Rap Translation by Hugo The Poet - Cantos 1-6, Hugo The Poet x Dante Alighieri
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Last updated 08 abril 2025

The tracks on this album have not yet been mixed properly or mastered. If you contribute some money when downloading, it will go towards the requisite studio time to get the job done. As the tracks get completed, I will replace them here, and you can download them again for free!
It's seven hundred years since Dante Alighieri penned his epic poem, Commedia, in which he describes in breathtaking detail a journey into three realms of the Catholic afterlife. So insanely inspired was this poetic undertaking, that swiftly after its printing its giddy readers added the epithet Divine to it, and 'La Divina Commedia' has never been surpassed in scope or style in seven centuries of poetry in any language.
Dante made use of a poetic form described as the 'Dolce Stil Novo' which translates as The Sweet New Style. He was determined to prove that the collection of unrefined dialects of the peninsula that we now know as Italy were just as appropriate for writing poetry as the Latin which all other writers of the time felt obliged to favour. He called this principle 'De Vulgari Eloquentia' - the Eloquence of Vulgar Languages (i.e. the eloquence of the vernacular). In exile from his beloved Florence, he set about writing the Commedia, and over the course of 100 canti, not only proved that the disparate dialects were up to the task, but effectively created the Italian language in the process, and immortalised himself to boot.
Over the epic journey, in effortlessly flowing and ingenious rhyme form, he shows the language's ability to run the gamut of tones from the brutal and disgusting tortures of Hell to high flown and awe-inspiring visions of Paradise. So great was his prowess with rhyme, that he effectively placed himself at the top of the all-time great rhymers that humanity has produced for seven centuries.
However, when in the latter half of the 20th Century, in New York, an upstart group of young musical innovators gave birth to a style of music and a subculture called Hip Hop, all of a sudden, in the form of Rap, there arrived poets who took the art of rhyming to obsessive extremes, finally presenting a poetic form that, in terms of rhyming at least, could hold its own alongside and perhaps even surpass that of history's greatest.
Immortal innovators of the artform such as Rakim, Talib Kweli, Eminem, KRS One, Mos Def, Nas, Notorious BIG, Tupac Shakur and Pharoahe Monch, took this rap rhyming to incredible depths, exploring all angles of their own vernacular, spitting intricate multi-syllable rhymed verses over irresistible hip hop beats and delivering their version of the Dolce Stil Novo to an insatiable world, and in the process proving, like Dante, that their Vulgar vernacular could have global relevance in its eloquence.
So, to this project. The basic agenda being simply to retranslate the Inferno using some of the forms of Rap - Multi-syllabic rhyme patterns, driving beats - to reengage with this epic medieval poem, and maybe contribute to garnering it a new audience. Of course, being a mere beginner in this art form myself, I have done my best to do justice to both the form and the source material. Any seeming deficiencies in either are in fact mine, and I apologise in advance.

Alighieri, Dante (1265–1321) - The Divine Comedy: Inferno 1-7

Alighieri, Dante (1265–1321) - The Divine Comedy: Inferno 8-14

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dantes Inferno by Dante Alighieri Illustrated Vintage Book

The Inferno of Dante: A by Robert; Freccero DANTE; Pinsky
Used Book in Good Condition

Inferno: The Longfellow Translation

Alighieri, Dante (1265–1321) - The Divine Comedy: Inferno 1-7

Canto XXI of Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Summary & Quotes

File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 1 (I found

Stephen Cole

Dante's Inferno - The Rap Translation by Hugo The Poet - Cantos 1

Dante's Inferno - The Rap Translation by Hugo The Poet - Cantos 1
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