What Dante Owes to Stanisław Barańczak

Much has been written about Stanisław Barańczak as a translator, but little about Barańczak as a translator of Dante. Essentially, the Polish poet's interest in Dante remained limited to translation of the first three cantos of the Divine Comedy, and a fragment of the fourth. Moreover, the Italian poet seem never to have found a place in the poetic organisation of Barańczak's world. The aim of this contribution, then, is to collect the few results from scholars dealing with this aspect of the Barańczak’s career, and to trace some new elements that could deepen the relationship between himself as a translator of Dante's original work, and as a translator of other authors.