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Dante's Paradiso
Stephen Arndt
其他書名
A Poetic Translation in Iambic Pentameter and Terza Rima
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014-10-05
主題Poetry / Epic
ISBN15023766959781502376695
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UQPgjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Paradiso, the third book of the Divine Comedy, completes Dante's epic journey through the afterlife. In this volume Dante rises, guided by Beatrice, through all the celestial spheres to attain the vision of God himself. Stephen Wentworth Arndt has produced a unique translation of this classic medieval epic, using iambic pentameter for Dante's eleven-syllable line, his interlocking triplet rhyme pattern (terza rima), modern diction, and normal word order in a translation highly faithful to the sense of the original. Furthermore, he employs perfect rhymes throughout-a feat one prominent Dante translator declared "apparently impossible." To the best of our knowledge, he is the first and only translator to have done so in the 400-year history of Dante translations into English. This masterful translation comes with a prose summary of each canto and concise notes to identify the numerous persons and places mentioned in the poem but unfamiliar to the modern reader.