ALLEN MANDELBAUM (1926–2011) was the author of five verse volumes. His translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo, and Ungaretti have all been richly praised. For his translation of The Aeneid, he won the National Book Award. Mandelbaum was the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1989–2008).