Description: Argues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante's Commedia.
Brief description: Robert Hollander is professor of European Literature at Princeton University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He served from 1974 to 1980 as vice chair of the National Council on the Humanities, and held the post of president of the Dante Society of America for three years.