Good version of The Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.10536206]

Preferably with original Italian - in addition to English and English notes.

[Anonymous No.10536389]

Singleton.

/thread

[Anonymous No.10536402]

Just learn italian. Once you learn the grammar and the common words you can basically just read it with a dictionary at hand.

[Anonymous No.10536421]

The weird penguin hardcover one everyone hates is actually good because the translation is fine quality and it has the original Italian on every second page.

[Anonymous No.10536429]

Does 2:00 happen in the story?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONe9gCPRRfE
>Is an adaption greater than the source?

[Anonymous No.10536442]

Mendelbaum. There's paperbacks that have the original itallian next to it. They're sold as singles, but I found some at good will.

[Anonymous No.10536445]

EA Games translation

[Anonymous No.10536460]

>>10536429

God damn, video games are retarded. No that doesn't happen.

[Anonymous No.10536465]

>>10536429
Lol no, what the fuck was that?

[Anonymous No.10536477]

>>10536206
Ive heard different opinions on which English version is the best. Can anybody recommend me a good translation?

[Anonymous No.10536495]

[Anonymous No.10536500]

>>10536477
Mandelbaum for blank verse, Ciardi for poetics. Stay away from Sayers and Kirkpatrick (though the former is in strict terza rima and the latter has very good notes). Longfellow is antiquated but readable. A prose translation might be better for you.

[Anonymous No.10536506]

>>10536465
ending of game in OP pic

[Anonymous No.10536514]

>>10536500
Alright cool. Would Longfellow have the prose translation?

[Anonymous No.10536516]

>>10536495

What is the purpose of this picture?

[Anonymous No.10536534]

>>10536516
the one OP should read

[Anonymous No.10536544]

>>10536506
is the book based on the game?

[Anonymous No.10536550]

>>10536544
absolutely

[Anonymous No.10536581]

Saw this at my local library

[Anonymous No.10536640]

>>10536534

But why did you go through the trouble of taking your phone out, taking a picture of the book in front of your monitor, and then uploading it?

[Anonymous No.10536656]

>>10536429
Yeah I think I remember this happening in the book.

[Anonymous No.10536673]

>>10536656
I am laughing so hard.

He blasts him with all the souls and he gets sucked into a void like he was a fucking VIDEO GAME BOSS.

[Anonymous No.10536685]

>>10536640
both were in in reach from my chair
I like to have my books taunting me: "Why you not reading us fucking faggot."
Until shame overwhelms me; and so I spend the next few hours reading.

[Anonymous No.10536692]

>>10536673
You only laugh cause you didn't read it in the original Italian which treated it much more sensitively.

[Anonymous No.10536804]

>>10536206
check the chart

[Anonymous No.10537007]

>>10536402
OP here - speak some Italian but would prefer also to have notes in English

[Anonymous No.10537019]

>>10536804
Do you have a copy of the chart?

[Anonymous No.10537112]

>>10537019
This one?

[Anonymous No.10537178]

>>10537112
Thanks, also good. But I meant the one recommending different translations of Dante

[Anonymous No.10537202]

>>10537007
>>10536495

[Anonymous No.10537251]

Esolen is the only good english translation, don't know about Italian, though.

[Anonymous No.10537270]

Anyone have experience with the Hollander translations? I have one for Inferno, but haven't got around to it.

[Anonymous No.10537394]

>>10537112
this is the fake chart
pic related is the real one

[Anonymous No.10537408]

Prose translations.

[Anonymous No.10537411]

>>10537394
the one with Zettle's Traum is the fake one that discord made. No one has read that book, not even them.

[Anonymous No.10537416]

>>10537411
>I'm too pleb for this book so everyone else must be too

go back redditor

[Anonymous No.10537422]

>>10537416
t. discord user who hasn't even read Zettle's Traum

[Anonymous No.10537434]

>>10537422
t. discord false flagger

[Anonymous No.10537578]

>>10536206

[Anonymous No.10537583]

>>10536402
Ah, I know who you are. I miss you.

[Anonymous No.10537596]

>>10536495
t h i s

[Anonymous No.10537882]

>>10536206
Hollander has everything you asked for.

[Anonymous No.10537910]

>>10537882
this chart says >>10537578 Hollander is pretty serious... I'm pretty serious, but inexperienced with classical Latin lit; do you think I could get by with Hollander and appreciate a lot of it's density still?

[Anonymous No.10538073]

>>10537910
Most of the Hollander "seriousness" comes from the notes. It feels like every other line has a paragraph or two to go with it, the translation itself isn't much different than Mandelbaum though (as far as readability goes). I've only read Mandelbaum and Hollander, and sampled a few others. If you're really interested in the Comedy, go with one of those two. I started with Mandelbaum and loved it, and looking back I don't think I would've had much of a different experience with Hollander. You can always skip over the notes, they can get exhausting, but if you want that extra depth they're there.

[Anonymous No.10538078]

>>10537910

Don't worry so much about getting the right translation. This book is worth reading multiple times throughout your life and there's no reason you can't read many different translations, so just pick one and go from there. This applies for any classic work. I have 4 different copies of the Odyssey.

[Anonymous No.10538143]

>>10538073
>>10538078
thanks! I've had a Hollander copy since the game came out when I was younger, and I have always wanted to return to it since I've grown a brain.

[Anonymous No.10538150]

>>10536206
does that nigga have a cloth cross stitched into his skin

[Anonymous No.10538161]

>>10538150
he is big into christ and crusading for him