The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso: 003 (Galaxy Books)

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But since I'd already started reading, I kept at it. The translator of this version is just excellent, presenting the text in a beautiful flowing, readable English. After giving up on this volume of The Divine Comeday several times in my younger years, I decided to give the work another try. I thought maybe maturity would make it manageable this time. That did help, but the real key to my finishing and benefiting from my experience with Paradise this timewas the inspired translation by Mark Musa.

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Musa obviously thought it more important for readers to understand what Dante meant, rather than just providing a word-for-word rendition of the original text, which was after all written in medieval Italian. He also provides plentiful notes and longer explanatory passages. I would recommend this edition to all who are interested in unpacking this monument of medieval literature to stimulate their own thinking about human destiny even in this modern age. Excellent translation for Dante's trilogy. Super clear to understand what the lines mean and who the different characters are.

Highly recommend this version. One person found this helpful. This was a gift for my son but he says he loves it. My uncle bought this version of The Divine Comedy for me for Christmas. I finally had some time to read it, and couldn't get past the first page! The translation the original text is Italian is so screwed up that I couldn't understand what I was reading. I gave this book away to Good Will and bought John Ciardi's translation, which is much easier to read!

Very happy that I read it. This volume Volume III: All three volumes are reprints of the text. It would have been more convenient if the English and Italian texts had been arranged in parallel columns, instead of having the English translation appear at the end of each canto. Contemporary readers might also have prefered John Ciardi's translation to Sinclair's. Overall, however, this version does quite nicely.

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But since I'd already started reading, I kept at it. The translator of this version is just excellent, presenting the text in a beautiful flowing, readable English. After giving up on this volume of The Divine Comeday several times in my younger years, I decided to give the work another try.

I thought maybe maturity would make it manageable this time. That did help, but the real key to my finishing and benefiting from my experience with Paradise this timewas the inspired translation by Mark Musa.

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Musa obviously thought it more important for readers to understand what Dante meant, rather than just providing a word-for-word rendition of the original text, which was after all written in medieval Italian. He also provides plentiful notes and longer explanatory passages. I would recommend this edition to all who are interested in unpacking this monument of medieval literature to stimulate their own thinking about human destiny even in this modern age.

Excellent translation for Dante's trilogy. Super clear to understand what the lines mean and who the different characters are.

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Highly recommend this version. My uncle bought this version of The Divine Comedy for me for Christmas. I finally had some time to read it, and couldn't get past the first page!


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