Then, by all means, you should try it. Dante (and, y'know, Milton) is a huge influence on the way we think about the geography of Hell, and his conception of Purgatory and Heaven is also really interesting, iirc. (I haven't gotten to those in this reread and it's been a while since I first read them.) Plus, his version of Hell has this whole weird melding of Christian and Greco-Roman, so you get weird things like a group of centaurs who just kinda work in Hell but aren't demons and you're left to reconcile that yourself, which is fun.
Also, there are so many people in Hell that Dante is, like, personally angry at and I love that very much.
I like the Hollander translation, for preference, but the Musa one is also quite good. (By this I mean that I found them enjoyable to read. I do not speak Italian and thus cannot speak to the accuracy of the translation.)
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Date: 2019-06-26 02:59 am (UTC)Also, there are so many people in Hell that Dante is, like, personally angry at and I love that very much.
I like the Hollander translation, for preference, but the Musa one is also quite good. (By this I mean that I found them enjoyable to read. I do not speak Italian and thus cannot speak to the accuracy of the translation.)