On a professor of literature who reportedly
died on Michaelmas 2015, a remark by his daughter —
“He was really an artist,” she said.
That’s evident in the 60 years Raffel spent contemplating
how to translate the terza rima style of Dante Alighieri’s
The Divine Comedy — speaking of the three-line rhyme
scheme first used by the author — before he published
a translation of which he was “most proud” in 2010,
his wife said.
It was his final work.
— Lanie Lee Cook, Baton Rouge Advocate