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Article Excerpt
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 a readable translation of the Divine Comedy, rendering its meaning into clear English with no attempt to reproduce Dante's rhymes, meter, or poetry. Aside from the fact that Appelbaum's verses correspond almost absolutely to Dante's, his translation could virtually be mistaken for a straight prose translation of the work. For instance,...
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