A hundred cantos in three canticas: down through hell, up the mountain of purgatory and through the spheres of heaven, written in exile by a man who put his enemies in it by name. Longfellow made this translation while his wife was being buried and his own notes say the work was what kept him upright.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Divine Comedy that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: H. W. Longfellow, 1867. Source: Gutenberg 1004.
The text here is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation of 1867, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 1004, set unaltered.
Longfellow does not rhyme. Dante’s terza rima cannot be carried into English without inventing lines, and he chose not to.
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