[New-Poetry] Which translation of the Divine Comedy to read?

[AlMaginnes at aol.com]

I enjoyed Pinsky's translation of "The Inferno." I read "Purgatorio" and  
"Paradiso" in Allen Mandelbaum's translations but he doesn't adhere to the terza  
rima scheme. Ciardi employs strict terza rima, sometimes at the expense of a 
lot  of other things.
 
Actually I would consider learning Italian to read Dante in the original if  
I had world enough and time.



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