What is the best version of pic related?
https://www.amazon.com/Divina-Commedia-Dante-Alighieri/dp/0674212908
Live thatrical adaptation as performed by an all-black Gospel theater group.
Chances are some of them will even be called Dante.
>Reading for pleasure? Hollander.
>Reading to inform your religious views? Hollander.
>Reading to study in an academic setting? Durling and Martinez.
>Reading as a secular scholar? Durling and Martinez.
I read somewhere that there were prose versions, are those any good?
I mean since I'm going to read a translated version, poetry or not, some meaning will be lost.
>>8263527
Why is Sisson not there? WHERE THE FUCJ IS SISSON? You stupid fickong noons have no fucking idea. you just don't get it, do you? Sisson is the best, the goat, the greatest, of, all, time, fuck. Dumb idiots. Sisson, sisson, sisson. SISSON!!! AAHHJH SUSSONFHFXSYRPYZROzey
Anyone know if the Carlyle-Wicksteed translation is any good?
>>8263560
its archaic
>>8263489
The one in Italian
>>8263527
So, what I'm getting from this is to read the Ciardi translation and then go through a second time with the Hollander translation.
>>8263529
>prose versions
Don't do it.
>>8263534
Make your own version then.
I can't decide between the Hollander or Mandelbaum versions, what do you guys prefer?
>>8263501
Hollander it is.
>>8264956
H O L L A N D E R
(I wish they had a Divine Comedy, instead of having to buy Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso separate.)
