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Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy: Selected Cantos / La divina commedia: Canti scelti. A Dual-Language Book.(Book Review)

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From: Italica
Date: 20020922
Author:Alfie, Fabian R.

Trans. Stanley Appelbaum. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2000.

In this edition, Stanley Appelbaum performs what can be called a line-by-line translation of the Commedia. In other words, each canto is reproduced in English with a canto of the exact number of lines of poetry, and each verse of Dante's original is rendered by the corresponding verse in English. In certain instances, the translator needs to transpose the meaning of the Italian verse to the subsequent line in English. However, as a rule, the English mirrors, as it were, the Italian masterpiece. Appelbaum succeeds in producing ...

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