/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13866235]

What English translation(s) of the Divine Comedy does /lit/ approve of? I have only read Longfellow.

[Anonymous No.13866246]

>>13866235
I speak Italian and Longfellow is the only decent one. Mandelbaum is total shit, as are all the other recent ones. Just my two cents.

[Anonymous No.13866260]

>>13866235
>english translation
Fucking KEK. It's terrible, just terrible. Reading translations is already bad but the Commedia in english is horrendous. I've read it in Portuguese and i know a bit of Italian and at least in Portuguese it the rhymes match pretty much word for word, and the syntax isn't that strange...
But in english?
A fucking waste of time, don't bother with it. Might as well get a prose adaptation; it'll be more coherent.

[Anonymous No.13866264]

>>13866235
>translation
>poetry
>from italian
dude just kys, u'll get more out of the epic by kys, than by reading a translation

[Anonymous No.13866966]

>>13866264
kek

[Anonymous No.13867232]

>>13866235
Get the ciardi version, just read the page synopsis before each chapter. Dont waste your time on the garbage frilly silly poetry

[Anonymous No.13867244]

>>13867232
the worst advice I've seen on this shithole

[Anonymous No.13867269]

>>13867244
What an absolute pleb (you) are

[Anonymous No.13867288]

>>13867269
>reads the synopsis of a translation
>calls people "pleb"
Anon, I...

[Anonymous No.13867347]

>>13866264
Im learning latin. Is there a decent Latin rendition? I know its old italian so it should be relitively close and I could possibly read it, but I would be like a middle scholer trying to read Shakespeare, you know what I mean?

[Anonymous No.13867355]

>>13866235
Mark Musa or Robin Kirkpatrick

[Anonymous No.13867368]

>>13867288
>Anon, I'm getting baited

[Anonymous No.13867376]

C. H. Sisson