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Anonymous Wed May 2 20:52:01 2018 No.11091201 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best translation of this?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:52:26 2018 No.11091204 File: 1.58 MB, 2000x7594, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11091201

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 21:04:05 2018 No.11091251 >>11091204 thanks. I think I'm gonna go with the Ciardi version because I've never read Dante before

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 21:04:33 2018 No.11091254 >>11091201 Mandelbaum is not only an excellent translation, it also has the Italian text on each facing page, as well as extremely helpful endnotes.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 22:06:57 2018 No.11091480 >>11091201 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHY DOESN'T MY ONEITES NOTICE ME

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 22:30:47 2018 No.11091579 Japanese

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 22:57:26 2018 No.11091684 >>11091201 hollander

Anonymous Thu May 3 03:33:37 2018 No.11092596

>>11091201

Ciaran Carson's translation of Inferno is great, as the chart here recommends >>11091204

Other than that, if you have the cash I highly recommend getting your hands on Tom Philips translation, more so for the incredible plates of his original work that accompany his translation.

https://www.abebooks.com/signed-first-edition/Dantes-Inferno-Tom-Phillips-Thames-Hudson/11273329932/bd

>>	Anonymous Thu May 3 03:54:43 2018 No.11092655 File: 288 KB, 727x973, 131111_r24228.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Skip Dante and go straight to Boccaccio

>>	Anonymous Thu May 3 03:59:47 2018 No.11092668 >>11091204 Italyfag here. I like the Mandelbaumm one, but the ending is kinda meh in all the first three.

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