PanDefectorOlivia Nuzzi wants you to know that she was reading Dante. If the title of her book, American Canto, was too subtle a clue, she writes that she has spent a great deal of time \'analyzing different translations of The Divine Comedy,\' going so far as to hire an Italian tutor so that she could better \'understand the source material.\' ... American Canto is a failed attempt to write an autobiography in the key of an epic ... Chapterless and digressive ... Among Dante’s great inventions was constructing a vision of Hell where the punishment borne by sinners reflected something of their sin ... It’s fitting, I suppose, that for attempting to be a poet, Nuzzi is instead consigned to a lifetime of having her name on this book.
