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The poetry of paradise.(Paradiso)(Book review)
From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20080101
Author:Yezzi, David
PARADISO by DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND JEAN HOLLANDER Doubleday, 944 pages, $40
With the publication of Paradiso, Robert and Jean Hollander have completed their landmark translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, begun with the Inferno in 2000 and followed by Purgatorio in 2003.
Reading translations is like seeing through a glass darkly, with the original growing dimmer as the translation ages. Fortunately, Dante's Comedy has been rendered by scores of successive English translators, each offering a new glimpse into the original. Charles Singleton gave an ...
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