Henry francis cary december 6, 1772 august 14, 1844,an english author and translator. Others want to carry documents around with them on their mobile phones and read while they are on the move. This is a compressed facsimile or imagebased pdf made from scans of the original book. O, of the other poets honour and light, avail me the long study and great love that have impelled me to explore thy volume. Side by side translations of the inferno dantes inferno. Many people prefer to read offline or to print out text and read from the real printed page. Fifteen translations of dante compared boisterous beholding. 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. The base text for this edition has been provided by digital dante, a project sponsored by columbia universitys institute for learning technologies. Of dante s many translators, three stand out as the best.
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. Thou art my master, and my author thou, thou art alone the one from whom i took. Dantes commedia has been translated, recast, and transposed into english more often than any other work of poetry, often accompanied by the apologies of. 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. The divine comedy translated by henry wadsworth longfellow etext courtesy ilts digital dante project inferno inferno. Parallel italian english german translation italiano english deutsch. Dantes masterwork is a 3 volume work written in italian rather than latin. 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. Pdf a translation of canto v from dante alighieris inferno john. Dante alighieri, the divine comedy of dante alighieri. Dante alighieri divine comedy, inferno 5 which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech. Four translations of dantes inferno johns hopkins university.
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