Divine Comedy

La Divina commedia

The highly acclaimed full translation, authentic Italian direct translation with 4,000 authoritative annotations, barrier-free reading, and comes with a bookplate and Chinese-Italian bilingual audio readings. An expert committee organized by the Cultural Office of the Italian Embassy in China selected Huang Wenjie's translation as the Chinese base text for the audio book "From the Dark Woods to Paradise: Dante's Journey into the Divine Comedy" produced in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Albert Theatre/Ravenna Theatre, and the Dante Association.
The Divine Comedy is the magnum opus of Dante, the "Father of the Italian Language" and a pioneer of the European Renaissance, and a landmark masterpiece in the history of world literature. Nobel Prize winner Eliot commented, "If Shakespeare reveals the breadth of the human spirit, then Dante reveals its depth."
This edition of Huang Wenjie's translation is a rare complete translation of the poem directly from Italian. It retains the original number of lines, corresponds to the original poem sentence by sentence, maintains the structure, rhythm and rhyme of the poem, and respects the tradition of European classical linguistics and literature, providing us with a faithful and fluent translation without losing the beauty of poetry.
Dante and Shakespeare divided the world into two parts, and there is no third part.
——TS Eliot "The Divine Comedy" is the pinnacle of all books. No other book has ever given me such a strong aesthetic shock.
—— Borges's "Divine Comedy" is the epic poem of Europe. It is my spiritual food.
——James Joyce Mr. Huang Wenjie was able to correspond to the original poem line by line and try his best to maintain the structure, rhythm and rhyme of the poem, while respecting the tradition of European classical linguistics and literature, providing us with a translation that is faithful, fluent and poetic.
—— Wen Zheng

2021-05-01

译林出版社

129

9787544786065