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Summary: Terrific way to read the Inferno
Review: This parallel-text edition gives the Italian alongside Sinclair's translation, which is prose but gives you a close understanding of the Italian. The footnotes are helpful without overburdening the reader, and each canto ends with some good expatiatory commentary on each canto. This makes for a very nice reading of the piece for the general reader.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I have taken a class with Robert Hollander over this work; this book shows great skill with Italian and a overall care and concern with finding and keeping the original intent. The footnotes in this edition are amazing - very helpful. I certainly recommend this book in any of its forms to all readers.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: A joy to read. Entertaining, funny, meaningful, introspective; couldn?ft put it down.A seminal work. Much in philosophy, psychology, and literature has been a response or effort to bolster or discuss the implications of this book. Oscar Wilde, in De Profundis, sited his reading of this book with comfort and reflection of the difficulty of being without sin, as well as the Bible. T.S. Eliot called Dante one of the two greatest writers along with Shakespeare. Ruskin often refers to it as other writers do. It is called the Divine ?gComedy?h of course it would have to be, but it something profound about psychology and human nature, of course not in absolutes or totality and much in psychology might disprove Dante, but psychology is not an absolute either, or perhaps more so, in that some parade themselves as having an absolute truth. A formative work. Ciardi?fs translation was highly accessible, junior high school level, and Ciardi justified this by saying that this is the way Dante intended it, although Dante was master of his language and poetic style, it was meant to be an accessible reading, but stylistically Ciardi points out just what a master Dante was. It was a bit amusing how Dante placed so many ecclesiastics with malus animus in his hell, and also his observations about the post Constintine church.
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