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Just finished Anthony Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno. I do not have anything to add to the many other reviews. However, for this translation, I recommend reading the Notes. They added a lot of background and made the epic poem much more understandable. The appendices, however, added very little in my opinion.
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Let me just start by saying this book is so beautifully and intelligently written that I could almost feel the atmosphere and hear the cries of pain by those who were damned. The book is cram packed full of religious and ancient history that I was almost in my element. However, and I know this is going to be unpopular but I found the repetitiveness of this book to be quite boring! It was the same conversation with each 'sinner' he came across in each Canto. I'm glad I've read it but I'm not sure
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I read the Longfellow translation and despite a huge lack of historical knowledge about Dante's contemporary Florence I really enjoyed Inferno.
The imaginative punishments are gruesome enough to capture your attention and the whole poem is successful in painting quite a visual image of Dante's incarnation of hell.
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The imaginative punishments are gruesome enough to capture your attention and the whole poem is successful in painting quite a visual image of Dante's incarnation of hell.
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