Divine Comedy

[NakedBear]

Hi Mikey,

I have a Penguin copy of Paradiso and it's not too bad -- only a couple of dollars so that's a plus as well I stupidly loaned my Inferno to someone -- I found an 1880s version in a bookshop in Edinburgh for about 3 quid. If you're up for e-books though, it's hard to go past the complete works on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8800/8800-h/8800-h.htm

I did download Longfellow's translation from gutenberg, which I may yet read. I'm just pondering over the options (there's a lot of options - maybe that's good, or maybe bad).

The most popular Inferno is the one by Pinksy. But reading a bit of it off Amazon has left me unenthusiastic.

And you didn't mention of you liked Dante's story overall.

(pardon the delay of my response: I slumbereth too much and have many nightmares).

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There's a decent Italian version, translated by a nearly forgotten writer called Dante.

There used to be a decent braille edition of Paradise Lost circulating that was supposedly translated by Satan, himself. I met a man named Dean Corso in the late '90s who claimed to have once perused an original printing at a book collector's in Spain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iR-QjtpZQ0

I don't believe it!

If Dante had translated to English, he'd have a wider readership.