As the geometer intently seeks . All rights reserved. through perils numberless (Carson) 1, who through a hundred thousand perils (Ciardi, Lombardo, Longfellow, Sinclair, Singleton) 3, who have borne innumerable dangers (Esolen) 1, who in the course of a hundred thousand perils (Hollander) 3, a hundred thousand perils you have passed (Kirkpatrick) 2, who having crossed a hundred thousand dangers (Mandelbaum) 3, who through a hundred thousand perils have made your way (Musa) 2, who . Even thus upon the wind in the light leaves 48lardor del desiderio in me finii. Exactly what I wanted. 108che bagni ancor la lingua a la mammella. [7] This was over 300 years after the first Latin (1416),[8] Spanish (1515),[4] and French (1500s)[9] translations had been written. the Love that moves the sun and the other stars. It is entirely by His grace the pilgrim will continue on, finally to stand before the Triune majesty. Dennis McCarthy, July 1997 imprimatur@juno.com CONTENTS Paradiso I. When Dante reaches the end of his vision and is granted the sight of the universe bound together in one volume, what entrances him is not plain Oneness but all that multiplicity somehow contained and unified. La Commedia Colorata. But while many of us are eager to harrow the halls of hell, with its gossipy tales of human suffering, few of us make it to heaven, where we are instructed in the theological intricacies of free will, gravity and the soul. That thou wouldst scatter from him every cloud In the deep and bright. Thus, Bernard signals to the pilgrim to look up, but I, already was doing what he wanted me to do: ma io era / gi per me stesso tal qual ei volea (50-51). Glad I could help. 24le vite spiritali ad una ad una. Robert and Jean Hollander have made the whole journey: their "Paradiso" completes their verse translation of the entire "Commedia." Robert Hollander is one of the pre-eminent Dante scholars. . 14che qual vuol grazia e a te non ricorre, 56che l parlar mostra, cha tal vista cede, Beatrice turns and exhorts the pilgrim to give thanks to Jesus, the "Sun of angels" by whose grace Dante has been raised so high. Is gathered all in this, and out of it THOU Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son from Paradiso: Canto 33 (lines 46-48, 52-66) By Dante Alighieri Translated by Robert Pinsky As I drew nearer to the end of all desire, I brought my longing's ardor to a final height, Just as I ought. Within the luminous substance there appeared three circles of three colors and one dimension, two reflecting each other like rainbows and the third mediating equally in between: But the effort to sustain the narrative line is too great, and the poet breaks in, first to exclaim again about the shortness of his speech (121-23) and then to address the eternal light that alone knows itself, is known by itself, and, knowing, loves itself (124-26). Dorothy L. Sayers produced a classic translation of Dante's Hell and Purgatorio which is still read. "One more tercet," Robert Pinsky would moan in bed, as his wife confiscated his pen. The prayer ends in verse 39 and then there are two terzine that transition from the prayer to the plot, which resumes in verse 46, with the statement that Dante is nearing the end of all desires: What follows is the story of the pilgrims gaze, as it finally ascends to the beatific vision. From then, my seeing 1Vergine Madre, figlia del tuo figlio, Invisible Ink. Commento Baroliniano, Digital Dante. My criteria for rhyme is basically the same as rhyme in a popular song (which is actually assonance, more or less). did not disdain His being made its creature. Dante: " E quinci sian le nostre viste sazie ." The world that never mankind hath possessed. It begins with a sequence of pure plot, in which Dante narrates what happened in the past tense. 92credo chi vidi, perch pi di largo, New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, Dantes God is the love that moves the sun and the other stars: lamor che move l sole e laltre stelle. 114mutandom io, a me si travagliava. What an interesting way to analyze these translations. On which it is not credible could be Prof. Hollander referred many times to Singletons notes and scholarship, so when Singletons translation was published, I got that and read it, too. Dante's Paradiso is the least read and least admired part of his Divine Comedy. While some luxuriate in this kind of hyper-participation on the part of the poet, others like artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who translated the Vita Nuova in the 19th century, hated having the love poetry ruined by Dante's didactic analysis. unless you have a strong background in Medieval Italian history, politics, philosophy, theology, literature, art, etc.) And the poems last line is now, by virtue of divine renumbering in Gods invisible ink, line 100. appeared to me; they had three different colors, In Italian literature: Dante (1265-1321) three cantiche, or narrative sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. To human nature gave, that its Creator These can also be considered three circulate melodie, three jumps by which the poet zeroes in on his poems climax. That he who wishes grace, nor runs to thee and bound by love into one single volume 28E io, che mai per mio veder non arsi Eternal Light, You only dwell within Kenner quotes from the same passage you compared. By mixing the voice up, I'm potentially sacrificing a sense of the unity of . 62mia visone, e ancor mi distilla One after one the spiritual lives. I always find myself greatly indecisive when it comes to book translations! My only criticism of your translation of this passage would be the attachment ambiguity arising from come through a hundred thousand dangers to the west, which might easily be misunderstood as dangers to the west rather than come through to the west.. and my own wings were far too weak for that. While W. S. Merwin has not translated the entire Paradiso, he happens to have translated its final canto. 130dentro da s, del suo colore stesso, And this, to what I saw. Again, it begins with a moment of plot, which contains an even more unequivocal and straightforward statement of arrival than the one in verse 48. The Ascent to the First Heaven. give back something of Your epiphany, and make my tongue so powerful that I This is how poems work: they embody in their sonic texture what they also describe. Was now approaching, even as I ought But I dont want to stay away from Dante for too long; Ill probably come around to Purgatory before finishing the Iliad (which of course is monumental). Thou art the one who such nobility Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy: Pb. 96che f Nettuno ammirar lombra dArgo. Which I endured would have bewildered me, Pp. A Historical Survey of Dante Studies in the United States, 1880-1944, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1948. 125sola tintendi, e da te intelletta 91La forma universal di questo nodo was in the Living Light at which I gazed Pinsky stopped with the Inferno. . 127Quella circulazion che s concetta I've been wrestling with Dante for more than 20 years and haven't read so much at one sitting as I have here. Thanks for this post I am organising a reading and am looking for a good translation. The best translation I've found -- end to end -- is by John Ciardi. Dante's terza rima is frustratingly hard to get right in English, and many translators have nearly gone mad trying to get it right. 58Qual coli che sognando vede, I suspect it is also a matter of not having come to it with preconceptions, or a restrictive sense of his duty to the work. Robert and Jean Hollander's verse translation with facing-page Italian offers the dual virtues of maximum fidelity to Dante's text with the feeling necessary to give the English reader a sense of the work's poetic greatness in Italian. Was in the living light on which I looked, Paradiso Paperback - September 9, 2008 by Dante (Author), Robert Hollander (Translator), Jean Hollander (Translator) 162 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $11.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback $19.95 38 Used from $5.81 22 New from $14.12 1 Collectible from $44.59 98mirava fissa, immobile e attenta, This accords, by the way, with my reading of Longfellow: every time Ive checked his translation against the original, Ive found it rigorously faithful. the universe, up to this height, has seen is suchto call it little is too much. Nevertheless, her translation is a poem, and it sounds like one. 87ci che per luniverso si squaderna: 88sustanze e accidenti e lor costume Robert Pinsky seems to get the strongest rcommendations so far as I can tell. Think of your breed; for brutish ignorance 143ma gi volgeva il mio disio e l velle, See Beatrice and all the blessed ones More figures from deepest antiquity thus crowd the scene in this canto of the Empyrean. And by a little sounding in these verses, An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine literary . 134per misurar lo cerchio, e non ritrova, Moreover, details of the action which had escaped me before, having been translated into a kind of over-cautious, archaic rhetoric, now become vivid. Her Inferno, when it first reached readers in 2012, scandalized purists and. For it is always what it was before; But through the sight, that fortified itself Replicating terza rima in English poses special challenges, for while English has a much larger vocabulary than Italian, it possesses many fewer rhymes. Interview by Thea Lenarduzzi Dante by Nick Havely 1 The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri [1] The end of the first movement, line 75 in the original, visible, numbering, is now line 30 in the numbering produced by Dantes invisible ink. [1] The three cantiche[i] of the poem, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, describe hell, purgatory, and heaven respectively. Consider well your origin, your birth: But it does not rhyme. Ciardi unsurprisingly ranks rather low. - The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Barolini, Teodolinda. 61cotal son io, ch quasi tutta cessa Think on the seed ye spring from! Of the uninhabited world behind the sun. Dante's 'Inferno' Quotes About Sin. Of my conceit, and this to what I saw 5nobilitasti s, che l suo fattore Now doth this man, who from the lowest depth Bound up with love together in one volume, Paradiso X, 52-60. Shorter henceforward will my language fall Here unto us thou art a noonday torch 110fosse nel vivo lume chio mirava, Paradisotogether in one volume.Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a . In three beautiful and quintessentially affective similes, the poet figures both his gain and his loss: Here too the narrator provides a set of three, in this case three remarkable similes: At this point, in an abrupt jump away from the lyrical peak formed by these similes, which impress upon us emotionally what cannot be understood rationally (working to transfer to us the passione impressa experienced by the pilgrim), we move into a prayer/apostrophe, also in the present tense, in which the poet begs that his tongue may be granted the power to tell but a little of what he saw. Im confused by this comment: the three prose translations score highest in terms of fidelity, with Allen Mandelbaum close on their heels as the most accurate of the 12 verse translations. In your evaluation, Longfellows blank verse ranks with Singletons prose as the most accurate. I was surprised to see a prose translation (I didnt know there was such a thing) and wanted to find out how Singletons translation was viewed. Of what I yet remember, than an infants 115, the flame of that candleDionysus the Areopagite, a judge who, in Acts (12:34), was converted to Christianity by the Apostle Paul. The result is awkward at best. Reading your examples, I invariably prefer Longfellow or Singleton. the passion that had been imprinted stays, 2014. brings more forgetfulness to me than twenty- Bernand was beckoning unto me, and smiling, Each section contains 33 cantos, though the Inferno has one more (34), since the very first canto serves as a prologue to the entire work. The poet compares to his own moment of stunned comprehension the moment when Neptune looked up and saw the shadow of the first ship. and, with this light, received what it had asked. Seemed fire that equally from both is breathed. includes Italian text and Mandelbaum s translation of the Divine Comedy a gallery Paradiso Dante Wikipedia April 29th, 2018 - World of Dante Multimedia website that offers Italian text of Divine Comedy Allen Mandelbaum s translation gallery interactive maps timeline What the Hell The New Yorker 27pi alto verso lultima salute. When Dante wrote the poem we call The Divine Comedy, he called it simply the Commedia: a story, beginning in sorrow and ending in joy, of one mans journey from hell, through purgatory, to paradise. Thanks again. Here is an outline that parses Paradiso 33 as four narrative blocks: the prayer to the Virgin, followed by the three circular movements three circulate melodie in which Dante tells the story of the pilgrims final vision and incorporation into the divine. 8per lo cui caldo ne letterna pace My mind in this wise wholly in suspense, Dante is satisfied with Beatrice 's explanations and voices his gratitude. Even such was I at that new apparition; fixed goal decreed from all eternity. A five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire "Divine Comedy" into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. 10Qui se a noi meridana face One moment is more lethargy to me, Mandelbaum: "And now our sight has had its fill of this." 4 ckerr4truth Feb 4, 2009, 4:48 pm 17a chi domanda, ma molte fate Nineteen translations of Dante ranked by fidelity, Three versions of a choral lyric by Euripides Bugs to fearen babes withall, 3 Resources to understand The Inferno by Dante Easy read blog, https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/p/nineteen-translations-of-dante-ranked.html, Saint-Sernin Basilica, the Tarot of Marseilles, and WhitleyStrieber, Dunnes experiments in wakingprecognition, How to use thee, thou, and other King James pronouns, O brothers, I said (Hollander, Simone, Sinclair, Singleton) 3, Brothers, I said (Kirkpatrick, Lombardo, Musa, Sisson) 3, who . I will be looking at the same passage as before, but Ive broken it into 10 sections, each of which will be graded based on its fidelity to the original Italian. That circulation, which being thus conceived Fastened upon the speaker, showed to us 123 tanto, che non basta a dicer poco. What little I recall is to be told, Understandably, some of the rhymes are a little free. Of the universe as far as here has seen His aspirations without wings would fly. 120che quinci e quindi igualmente si spiri. From the conceits of mortals, to my mimd . About Paradiso. Paradiso ( Italian: [paradizo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante 's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. And I, who to the end of all desires Since then, we've had plenty. Described by The Cambridge Companion to Dante as the first "powerful, accurate, and poetically moving" translation. The living ray that I endured was so He first states unequivocally that he reached the goal of his quest lardor del desiderio in me finii (I consummated the ardor of my desire [48]) and then describes how he looked upward, training his gaze more and more (pi e pi now takes the place of pi e meno) along the divine ray (46-54). (modern). The absence of rhyme is not necessarily the problem. Are you planning to do the entire Comedy, or only the Inferno? But the Commedia is above all else a poem, and the Hollander translation obscures this fact not because its scholarly apparatus is vast, but because the translation only fitfully succeeds as English poetry. but nothing of the rest returns to mind. A terzina of plot in which the pilgrim continues to gaze on the divine light (97-99), is followed by a passage that is essentially the poems last contribution to Dantes long meditation on conversion, desire, and the will. 95che venticinque secoli a la mpresa The phrase the shadow of the Argo lombra dArgo at the end of this terzina manifests Dantes antiquarian precision and his desire to make the pagan world manifest, even in this highest reach of the Christian universe: What, in synthesis, does this extraordinary passage tell us with respect to the pilgrim? That what I speak of is one simple light. 36dopo tanto veder, li affetti suoi. St. Bernard appeals to the Virgin Mary on Dantes behalf and she gazes down upon him with compassion. I can recall that I, because of this, lifted my longing to its ardent limit. the lives of spirits, one by onenow pleads. 136tal era io a quella vista nova: and there below, on earth, among the mortals, desire and will were moved alreadylike Dante believes in a transcendent One, but his One is indelibly characterized by the multiplicity, difference, and sheer otherness embodied in the "altre stelle" an otherness by which he is still unrepentantly captivated in his poem's last breath. you yet deny what little we have left Dante's lifelong love for Beatrice from afar (she died in 1290) also reflects the medieval poetic theme of courtly love, which Dante incorporated into his own literary style (which he called the dolce stil novo, or "sweet new style"). Of threefold colour and of one dimension. Ye were made The disjunctive syntax manages both to communicate an event and to conflate all narrativity into a textual approximation of the igualmente the equality, the homology, the silence to which we hasten: Another jump occurs as the poet speaks of his poetic failure one last time A lalta fantasia qui manc possa (Here force failed my high fantasy [142]) and still another as he records a final event with a final time-defying adversative. Or, if we insert agents into this drama, we could say as follows: we humans who have been forgetting the object of Neptunes wonder, the sight of the Argos shadow, for 2500 years have in all that time lost less of Neptunes vision than Dante has already lost of his. Note: An updated and expanded version of this post is available here: Nineteen translations of Dante ranked by fidelity. I tell is only rudimentary. Im ready to jump in, as it were. The two best known are Dorothy L. Sayers and John Ciardi. 109Non perch pi chun semplice sembiante . For the sake of this exercise four volumes of Dante's Paradiso have either been assigned or freely chosen. The subject of the sentence is God, referenced not in a single word but in the famous periphrasis for God that ends the Commedia: lamor che move il sole e laltre stelle (the Love that moves the sun and the other stars [145]). Lady thou art so great, and so prevailing, Im late to the party, but heres the same passage from my own translation in terza rima (just published this month): O brothers, I said, who have come through still De Sua, Dante into English. This voume contains the English translation only. The goal of this online publication is to make Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy accessible without any commercial interests in mind. that it would be impossible for him Beatrice, who has taken Virgil's place as Dante's guide, is look-ing directly into the sun. 20 Which is the best translation of Dante's DIVINE COMEDY? The prayer to the Virgin, uttered by Saint Bernard, requests intercession for the pilgrim that he may complete his quest to attain the beatific vision: a vision of the Transcendent Principle that holds the universe together, bound by love in one volume (Par. had watched it with attention for some time. Known for its extensive scholarly notes; the full text is over 600 pages. The Passionate Intellect, Dorothy L. Sayers's Encounter with Dante. This correspondence makes it easy for a reader to move between the English and the Italian, but it also makes the translation feel inert. your aid, may long to fly but has no wings. Remains, and to his mind the rest returns not. In thee magnificence, in thee unites That one moment Un punto solo of comprehension of the universal form of things is the source for Dante of greater wonder and oblivion than are for us (all of us: the collective and historical us) the twenty-five centuries that have passed since . Kent, Ohio:. 23de luniverso infin qui ha vedute Your loving-kindness does not only answer No archaisms, very straightforward, every bit as much power as the original. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography[13] and Societ Dantesca Italiana[it]'s international bibliography. That the Chief Pleasure be to him displayed. that Light, what there is perfect is defective. (It is, incidentally, quite possible to make yourself understood in Italy by using Dante's vocabulary, even though it's seven centuries old.) Unlike Dantes, the lines arent in any way troubling the syntax, luring us forward by holding us back. Well, actually, these days I also get asked a lot whether Ann Goldstein's translations of Elena Ferrante are any good (they are). In college, I took an intro course on Inferno from Prof. Hollander, with the Sinclair translation, and loved it. This declaration of arrival is situated in a passage whose rhyme words offer a veritable archeology of the Commedias thematics. Id say 0.7 is not too shabby, especially for this passage (which was rather difficult for me to render in terza rima). As you point out, any attempt at terza rima in English is doomed by lack of rhymes. One question: is translation faithfulness proportionately or inversely related to readability, or are they not necessarily related? And since Robert Hollander's achievements as a Dante scholar are unsurpassed in the English-speaking . When Dante fixes his eyes on her . The translators scored as follows: a questa tanto picciola vigiliadi nostri sensi ch del rimanente. Paradiso [11] As of 2022, the Divine Comedy has been translated into English more times than it has been translated into any other language.[4]. such am I, for my vision almost fades 37Vinca tua guardia i movimenti umani: 76Io credo, per lacume chio soffersi Anyone can read what you share. I wished to see how the image to the circle Are you familiar with the Binyons translation? We unlock the potential of millions of people worldwide. it as best he can, he invokes not simply the Muses, as he had in the first two books of The Divine Comedy, but Apollo, the god of poetry himself. More than I do for his, all of my prayers Definitely verse. For example, for brutish ignorance your mettle was not made; you were made men is reading an awful lot into Dantes fatti non foste a viver come bruti.. the one who asks, but it is often ready The Sphere of Fire. Some reference works classify Dante as a medieval writer - but he's not, because the people he describes have this quality of three-dimensional character. Of what may in the suns path be essayed, Of the High Light appeared to me three circles, The transitional adverb Omai (from now on) starts off the final movement by telling us that we are reaching finality. Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang's new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In you compassion is, in you is pity, 22Or questi, che da linfima lacuna Dante's Paradise other editions or translations of 'The Divine Comedy.' Please refer to the end of this file for supplemental materials. through a hundred thousand perils, surviving all (Pinsky) 0, who through a hundred thousand dangers (Simone, Sisson) 3, have reached the west (Carson, Ciardi, Lombardo, Longfellow, Pinsky, Sinclair, Singleton) 3, to reach the setting of the sun (Esolen) 1, at last have reached the west (Hollander) 2, and reached the Occident (Kirkpatrick) 3, to the west . Sanders transforms Dante's dense Italian into poignant, contemporary poetry rife with slang and modern turns of phrase. Carson says his experience of sectarianism in Belfast gave him an insight into what Dante's faction-ridden Florence must have been like; but that can't be the only factor determining the success of his Inferno. 122al mio concetto! O grace abundant, by which I presumed 49Bernardo maccennava, e sorridea, In the brief vigil that remains of light
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