The Divine Comedy is next on my list as I work through some classics.

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2016-03-12 03:21:00 Post No. 7801421
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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:21:00 Post No. 7801421 [Report]

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?

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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:26:50 Post No.7801436
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>>7801421
for fucks sake, why does this get asked every day?

mandelbaum

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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:29:34 Post No.7801446
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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:29:34 Post No.7801446 [Report]

I like Pinsky's translation. I also met him when he came to my high school.

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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:30:37 Post No.7801448
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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:30:37 Post No.7801448 [Report]

>>7801446

>he hasn't met Dante Alghieri

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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:36:03 Post No.7801460
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>>7801436
Would you rather see more frogposting or my-bookshelf-is-more-patrish-than-yours threads? I'm very sorry that your literature board is being shit up with discussion about Dante.

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Anonymous 2016-03-12 03:37:11 Post No.7801461
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>>7801460

no, but damn dude, pay more attention

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Anonymous 2016-03-12 04:11:53 Post No.7801587
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Anonymous 2016-03-12 04:11:53 Post No.7801587 [Report]

>>7801421
The Singleton Translation.

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Anonymous 2016-03-12 04:15:48 Post No.7801602
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Anonymous 2016-03-12 04:15:48 Post No.7801602 [Report]

>>7801460
It isnt real discussion on Dante like the fucking Yale Lecture, its shitters like you who are reading inferno for the first time.

I read that shit in like 7th grade.