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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
FYI - There is a website associated with this translation, the Princeton Dante Project. There are several lecture texts by Hollander. You can also search his commentaries online.
http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/ |
great link - and the lecture on allegory is even better than what I wrote, could you believe it
ETA: on links, here are two italian actors reading the first Canto. One is
Vittorio Gassman, one of the greatest Italian actors: this is definitely better for an Italian speaker, as the emphasis helps understand the text (for an Italian, Dante's language is quite hard to understand), it is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGq11ODudA
just skip to minute 4.40.
The other one is by a fellow tuscan,
Roberto Benigni, comedian and actor know outside Italy for his movie
Life is beautiful/la vita e' bella which won the Palme D'or in Cannes and Oscar as best foreign film, both in 1998 - this is less emphatic, but the rhyme is very clear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igC8UcnAZHE