Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Welcome to the 13th Season of Classics Revisited!

At the top left you'll see the titles we'll be reading this season, beginning with Dante's Inferno, the first book of his Divine Comedy. Choose any edition or translation of it you like best. Of the verse translations, some attempt to imitate the sound of the Italian terza rima, others try to render the content more accurately.

There are more versions of Inferno to choose from than the other two volumes because translators who start out intending to publish all three often stop after Inferno. Several versions can be read free online, including Longfellow's translation, or listened to for free on LibriVox.org.

In January, check back here for a list of the essays by Montaigne that we'll be reading.