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  • I actually have all three volumes separated, so I've only read "The Inferno" thus far, but loved Ciardi's poetic translation. It's beautiful, well-explicated and gives a reader a sense of why this poem has endured for so long and how it is truly "Divine."

    

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NB -- This is not a CD-ROM. This is an electronic book on three diskettes. These works are here presented in a public domain edition. The material on these diskettes is in plain (ASCII) text, formatted for a PC(not Macintosh). You can manipulate it with your favorite word processing program to enhance the format or to print out portions just the way you want. The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio) in the original Italian and in three different English translations.

Disk #1 -- original Italian and translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Disk #2 -- translation by H.F. Cary
Disk #3 -- translation by Charles Eliot Norton

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