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name a better translation NAME IT FUCKER

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 9:35:11 PM No.24624633 >>24625674

>>24624624 (OP)
i shit you not i found purgatorio and paradiso at my local indie bookstore and i almost shit a fucking brick

10$ for both

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 5:00:20 AM No.24625669

>>24624624 (OP)
Kalocsay.
Hey, you didn't specify an English translation.

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 5:02:04 AM No.24625672

Mandelbaum's Virgil is proven best because he attempted a Dante

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 5:02:29 AM No.24625673

>>24624624 (OP)
>name a better translation NAME IT FUCKER
My Italian "friends" go where they belong

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 5:02:51 AM No.24625674

>>24624633
Why is that a brick-shitting moment? It's a famous classic work, of course it's going to turn up.

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 5:03:04 AM No.24625675

>Only translated Inferno
pass

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 7:25:26 AM No.24625834

>>24624624 (OP)
longfellow's dante

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 9:05:16 AM No.24625943

>>24624624 (OP)
Anything good in dead language books?

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 9:51:18 AM No.24625991

>>24624624 (OP)
I'm reading the Purgatorio edition of this translation right now.
Really great even if the covers are so tacky.

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 6:46:51 PM No.24626929

>>24624624 (OP)
Borchardt, Dante Deutsch

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 6:47:23 PM No.24626933

>>24624624 (OP)
cary's is better

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 7:00:54 PM No.24626988

>>24624624 (OP)
longfellow because it's written by a poet