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Parsons (THOMAS WILLIAM a poet)

THOMAS WILLIAM, a poet and translator of Dante. He was born in Boston in 1819, and from 1836 lived in Italy, where, after some years' study of the language of the country he produced his "Dante's Inferno," later adding parts of the Purgatorio and Paradiso. He afterward practiced dentistry in Boston and London, and died in 1892. His other works include: "Ghetto di Roma"; "The Magnolia and Other Poems"; "The Old House at Sudbury"; "The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems."