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2016-03-12 03:21:00
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The Divine Comedy is next on my list as I work through some classics. I'm going to order it while I start some Sophocles. Which translation is the best? I don't think I want a prose one that sacrifices all of the poetic qualities for maximum literal accuracy, but I do want one staying reasonably close to the spirit of the original.
Also, something I've always wondered, why does the general public seem so specifically fixated on Inferno if the Comedy itself is (from what I've heard) largely about redemption? Just a morbid curiosity with hell?