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Divine Comedy Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:05:27 2019 No.12916055 [Reply] [Original]

Did I fuck up? Is this version acceptable?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:17:16 2019 No.12916116 honestly all translations are garbage. Learn italian pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:19:30 2019 No.12916130 File: 156 KB, 362x259, 1552796918622.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12916116 > Learn 1300's era Italian

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:19:48 2019 No.12916134 >>12916116 Don't learn Italian, just read the poem in its original language alongside the translation

Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:21:46 2019 No.12916143

Henry Wasdworth Longfellow's translation is the best one.
Also did you buy this online? Gimme a link cause I've been trying to find a good copy of Longfellow's translation but the only ones I can find are the big gay deluxe barnes and noble special editions with the fancy hardcovers and I dont want that cause I like to carry my books around with me

Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:22:58 2019 No.12916148

>>12916055
No. It's been long enough and the work is famous enough that there's many high quality translations out there that capture the essence of the original, making learning italian and reading it as it was originally written more work and effort than it's worth.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:24:29 2019 No.12916155 >>12916130 >>12916134 >>12916148 >>12916143 might as well read the sparknotes version, plebs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:34:49 2019 No.12916201 >>12916143 Actually bought these at a local Barnes & Noble

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:37:54 2019 No.12916214 Translation is dogshit...

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:40:53 2019 No.12916231 >>12916155 Deluded and stupid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:43:26 2019 No.12916241 >>12916055 Ask b4 you buy faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 10 22:46:39 2019 No.12916255 >>12916231 ad hominem

Anonymous Wed Apr 10 23:28:43 2019 No.12916395

>>12916055
The Barnes and Noble classics always use old public-domain translations. I bought Dead Souls on a whim a few months back while perusing a B&N in some suburban hellhole and I was pissed when I realized it was Constance Garnett and not literally anyone else. But the Longfellow should be pretty good. Insert Melville quote about translators of poetry being the rivals of original authors

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 08:55:37 2019 No.12917861 >>12916395 Ty anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 11:07:40 2019 No.12918327 >>12916143 i have cary translation do i an hero?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 15:06:34 2019 No.12919484 >>12916255 It's also true, faggot

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 15:07:37 2019 No.12919490 For Christmas I was given the overpriced flashy hardcover version Barnes and Noble likes to shit out

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 16:14:22 2019 No.12919824 >>12916116 You can't understand the book by learning modern italian and there's no way you'll be able to learn volgare fiorentino

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 23:59:38 2019 No.12921688 >not leather bound gag

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