Divine Comedy.

[dudenator]

I was wondering what the best English translation of Divine Comedy is. One that stays truest to the original. It's a pretty epic poem.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Just read it in its original form, like I did!

 

[mameks]

Just read it in its original form, like I did!

+1
It's the first major use of proper Italian, and is soooo amazing in the original.

 

[Depravo]

There was me thinking this thread was going to be about the band...

 

[naglaro00]

Already finished Inferno and Purgatorio

My classmates call me a heretic for reading it though

 

[Dangy]

This is actually mandatory literature in my school. ._.

 

[dib]

I haven't read more than one translation so I can't answer definitively, but the Melville Anderson translation (1921. A Line-for-Line Translation in the Rime-Form of the Original) was very faithful and includes margin notes.