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http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/

The best edition is that one by Oxford press with the long critical apparatus. You can't read The Divine Comedy without notes.

Longfellow. We've been through this 100000000 times. I know fucking Italian. I've read the Comedy. Longfellow is the best version in English.

>>14585319
This one?

Babits

>>14585324
>prose translation
Absolutely no. Avoid prose translation at any cost. It's a poem, not a novel.

I think it's pic related, but you should definitely visit the bookstore and make your own decision. Longfellow's translation is usually said to be good as well. Read a few pages from different versions and make a quick comparison.

The essential features are:
- Verse translation
- The presence of notes and commentaries
- (possibly) a bilingual edition with Italian on one side and English on the other side. This will become very useful when you will realize that you need to learn Italian because it's one of the most beautiful languages on Earth. Everyone realizes it, sooner or later.

>>14585399
forgot pic

>>14585399
what pic related?

>>14585412
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>>14585410
Thanks for the rec. I will definitely need an annotated edition.

>>14585495
You're welcome anon

>>14585320
Don't know why this triggered a fit of laughter for me.

>For fuck's sake, I was there when Dante wrote it. I read the first draft, I even went to the ninth circle to check if he realistically depicted it.

Do Longfellow

>>14585528
kek well meme'd read Longfellow