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Title: Quite rightly highly rated translation!
Review: This came in today; compared with my 1968 edition [ which was minus Italian original verse ] Pinsky does a poetic justice to Dante.I enjoy comparing James Branch Cabell's Jurgen's view of Hell and Heaven to Dante's. The dogmatic complexities of humor and poetry are almost numbing. In a way Cabell does a credible examination of Dante, he suggests that Hell is made in Jurgen's fathersmind-something that children are taught at an early age-and the Devil is merely a shadow of God.I wish Albrecht Dürer's illustrations were part of this volume too.The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition (English and Italian Edition)
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