In 1865 Boston, the associates of the Dante Golf club — poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Areas — are completing America’s 1st translation from the Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante’s exceptional visions to the brand new World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to maintain Dante in obscurity, thinking the infiltration of foreign superstitions onto American bookshelves about The Dante Golf club will prove as corrupting as the immigrants surviving in Boston Harbor.

As they struggle to keep their sacred literary trigger alive, the programs from the Dante Club are placed in additional jeopardy when a serial killer unleashes his terror on the city. Only the scholars realize that the gruesome murders are modeled in the explanations from Dante’s Inferno and its account of Hell’s torturous punishments. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante’s literary potential in America on the line, the Dante Membership must find the killer before the specialists discover their secret.

The Dante Golf club is a magnificent blend of reality and fiction, a brilliantly recognized paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continued hold on our imaginations.