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Is the Longfellow translation good?

>> No.10301586
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10301586

Get this.

>> No.10301631
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10301631

check this out

>> No.10301644

>>10301565
>divine comedy
>didn't even make me laugh
don't waste your time kid

>> No.10301649

>>10301565
Ignore all these other idiots and buy the Esolen translation. It is the newest and most elegant of all. Mandelbaum can't hold a candle to it.

>> No.10301706

>>10301565
Ignore all these other idiots and read the original.

>> No.10301796
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10301796

yes

>> No.10301806

>>10301649
I'll go with that thanks.

>> No.10301838

>>10301565
I know that I may sound as an uneducated peasant, but exactly what's so special about the Divine Comedy?
An Italian friend of mine told me that they read the entire work in the course of 3 years.

>> No.10301842

>>10301838
In highschool

>> No.10301848

>>10301806
good choice m8

>> No.10301850

>>10301838
For being self-congratulatory-self-insert Catholic masturbatory fiction

>> No.10301889

>>10301850
but anon it shits on Christianity from beginning to end. One of the popes and Judas were depicted as being eaten

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>>10301838
Virgil a cute

>> No.10301927

>>10301889
>Pope Boniface is roasted upside down for being corrupt and exiling Dante
>Judas is the penultimate betrayer of Christ and gets punished for it eternally
>anti christian

>> No.10301967

>>10301889
lol no. I know that Muslims are asspained about it because he decided to place Mohammed in hell since he thought of him as a violent thug.
>>10301850
If it was written nowadays people would treat it as the most autistic Christian fan fiction ever.

>> No.10301974

>>10301927
>the representative of god on earth who sells indulgences is actually a piece of shit
>not a slap in the face to christians
>>10301967
the book calls God pagan even with its themes

>> No.10302135

>>10301974
>The representatives of God becoming corrupt rather than a paragon of virtue get among the harshest punishments in hell
Its a slap in the face to Boniface, not christians