Dante Alighieri
Published: 2017-01-09
Total Pages: 676
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Excerpt from The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Translated Line for Line in the Terza Rima of the Original, With Notes In carrying out this undertaking, I have ever kept in mind that the original text is quella materia ond' ia son fattoscriba; that thework I had todowasto write itout in another language: as far aspossible with out adding thereto, diminishing from, or substituting for, it. Di icultas it is to adhere to this high standard of literal accuracy, I am convinced that it is only by doing sototheutmostofhispowcr, intheoriginalmetre, and in a line for line version, that a translator can hope to produce anything approximating to such a true photo graph of the original as, according to a recent pro nouncement of the Bishop of Ripon, has never yet been taken.' Dante's style is so terse, and his terzine are so interwoven, that in transferring the poem into any other mould we have but the disjecti membra poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."