Title: Great Translation of a great work with really sorry notes.
Product review: Dorothy Sayers produced a wonderful translation of this work. I confess I do not read Italian, but her translation is fashioned in wonderful verse attempting to recreate the original poetry. She has created a fun and enjoyable book from a brilliant piece of religio-political commentary. I withheld one star for Sayers' notes. She is a strong moralist who, while commenting in her introduction that Dante refrained from hitting his readers with hammers, opts to use the notes as her own hammer to bang home her own, very conservitive morality. I would that there was an edition with her notes edited for the modern reader.
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