This work presents a sidebyside parallel translation of dantes divine comedy. O, of the other poets honour and light, avail me the long study and great love that have impelled me to explore thy volume. This is a compressed facsimile or imagebased pdf made from scans of the original book. It was one of the first major works of literature written in the italian language, rather than latin which was until then still the language of the scholars and poets. Fifteen translations of dante compared in my last post i compared john ciardi and allen mandelbaums translation of the inferno by looking at how they handled canto xxvi, lines 112120. Thou art my master, and my author thou, thou art alone the one from whom i took. Parallel italian english german translation italiano english deutsch. A translation of canto v from dante alighieris inferno john daniel thieme in the fifth canto of dantes inferno, dante and virgil pass the hideous. Dantes masterwork is a 3 volume work written in italian rather than latin. Many people prefer to read offline or to print out text and read from the real printed page.
Others want to carry documents around with them on their mobile phones and read while they are on the move. The base text for this edition has been provided by digital dante, a project sponsored by columbia universitys institute for learning technologies. Dante alighieri, the divine comedy of dante alighieri. In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by allen mandelbaum, all of dante s vivid imagesthe earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic. The italian text with a translation in english blank verse and a commentary by. Fifteen translations of dante compared boisterous beholding. Dantes commedia has been translated, recast, and transposed into english more often than any other work of poetry, often accompanied by the apologies of.
Four translations of dantes inferno johns hopkins university. Dante s inferno dante s inferno the divine comedy of dante alighieri translated by henry wadsworth longfellow volume 1 this is all of longfellows dante translation of inferno minus the illustrations. Side by side translations of the inferno dantes inferno. Henry wadsworth longfellow 18071882, himself a poet. Side by side translations of the inferno by dante alighieri the divine comedy is regarded as the foundation of modern literary italian.
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