henry cary

[Dave Monroe]

Musa's is the readily available Penguin Classics ed.,
right?  Robert Hollander's (no relation) translations
(Doubleday) have in particular been recommended to me
by a reliable source as well.  But I ain't not no
Dante scholar (among many, many other possibilities),
that's for sure, so ... so, anyway, see as well ...

http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/da_p.htm

http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/

http://www.danteonline.it/italiano/home_ita.asp

And I did like Mandelbaum's translation of Ovid's
Metamorphoses, though another reliable source tells me
not to retire the ol' Rolfe Humphries trans. ...

--- Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> 
> Among the moderns, Mark Musa's translation of the
> Commedia with notes is outstanding for its clarity
> and for the intelligent and helpful supplemental
> material ...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> > Behalf Of Betsy -
> > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 1:49 PM
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: henry cary
> >
> > New question:  I received the Divine Comedy as
> > translated by Henry Cary a little while ago, and
> > I was wondering if this is considered a good
> > translation or not....

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