specially florentine programmed translations

books:

The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise (The Divine Comedy) and Illus. With 450 Original Drawings ...
Dante Alighieri

G. Fattorusso - Florence Italy, 1844

The Divine Comedy (The Programmed Classics)
Dante Alighieri

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946

All 3 books, illust. by Umberto Romano. Deluxe fine simulated leather in Marie Antoinette binding, with 24k gold top edges, lettering, and decorations.

The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri

International Collectors Library, 1946

Inferno

106 reviews
Dante Alighieri

American Classical College Press, 1985

A powerful translation of a masterpiece
There have been several excellent translations of Dante in the past few years, all worth reading in their own right. But I retain a special affection for John Ciardi's version, as it's the first one I ever read, at the unprepared & overwhelmed age of 15. I knew of its reputation as a major classic & I was ignorant enough to be unfazed by the prospect of reading it. Well, to say that I was soon ...