Confounding the Apes
P.N. Furbank, 22 August 1996
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri, translated by Allen Mandelbaum.
Everyman, 798 pp., £14.99, May 1995,1 85715 183 6 Show More
by Dante Alighieri, translated by Allen Mandelbaum.
Everyman, 798 pp., £14.99, May 1995,
The Inferno of Dante. A New Verse Translation
by Robert Pinsky, illustrated by Michael Mazur.
Dent, 427 pp., £20, February 1996,9780460877640 Show More
by Robert Pinsky, illustrated by Michael Mazur.
Dent, 427 pp., £20, February 1996,
“... to the atrocities of my translation, all that can be said in excuse is that they are, I hope, for the most part intentional, and committed with the aim of driving the reader’s perception further into the original than it would without them have penetrated.’ Of these three new translations of Dante (not all of them quite new, for Allen ... ”