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Title: ciardi is my favorite translator
Review: so many translators try to stay close to the actual words but ciardi goes past that and translates the magic of that work into english. if you look at the other stuff, even mandelbaum, it just doesn't read the same. all you have to do to tell the difference is to pick up the first canto and look at the difference. ciardi rules, and while the others may be truer to the text, they all drool, relatively speaking.
