| #190449 in Books | imusti | 2007-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.90 x5.20l,.86 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | W W Norton Company||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Outstanding translation, scholarship and perfect as an e-book!|By dmontag|Jean and Robert Hollander's edition of Inferno is outstanding in every way. The translation is well-suited to the modern reader and seems to follow the Italian quite closely. The synopses preceding each canto are very useful and Hollander's analyses are exhaustive, interesting and complete with detailed||"Dante's conversations with his mentor Virgil and the doomed shades are by turns assertive and abashed, irritated and pitying and inquisitive, and Anthony Esolen's new translation renders them so sensitively that they seem to take place in the same room with u
This Norton Critical Edition of Dante’s masterpiece is based on Michael Palma’s verse translation, which is acclaimed for its elegant rendering of Dante’s triple-rhyme scheme into contemporary English.
Richard Wilbur praises Palma’s translation as “accurate as to sense, fully rhymed, and easy, as a rule, in its movement through the tercets. Readers will find it admirably clear and readable.” The text is accompan...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Inferno (Norton Critical Editions) | Dante Alighieri. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
