#robert hollander

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(i) Dante Aligheri,  Inferno 2.1-3 from The Divine Comedy (tr. Jean & Robert Hollander) ORIGINAL TEXT: “Lo giorno se n’andava, e l’aere bruno; / toglieva li animai che sono in terra /  da le fatiche loro; e io sol uno; // m’apparecchiava a sostener la guerra; / sì del cammino e sì de la pietate...”

(ii) Hannibal 2x08, ‘Su-Zakana’ dir. Vincenzo Natali, written by Scott Nimerfro, Bryan Fuller, and Steve Lightfoot

(iii) Robert Hollander’s notes on Inferno 2.1-3

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Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno , tr. by Robert and Jean Hollander

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(i) Dante Aligheri, Inferno 2.3-6 from The Divine Comedy (tr. Jean & Robert Hollander) ORIGINAL TEXT: “e io sol uno; // m’apparecchiava a sostener la guerra;  / sì del cammino e sì de la pietate, / che ritrarrà la mente che non erra.”

(ii) Hannibal 2x12, ‘Tome-Wan’ dir. Michael Rymer, written by Scott Nimerfro, Chris Brancato, and Bryan Fuller

(iii) Robert Hollander’s notes on Inferno 2.4-5

(iv) Anne Carson, ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’

[hayleylovesjessica]

I really, really want to re-read The Divine Comedy, first in the translation by the Hollanders, followed by the rendering into contemporary, idiomatic English by Mary Jo Bang.

[notdrhanniballecter]

Robert Hollander, Who Led Readers Into ‘The Inferno,’ Dies at 87

He and his wife wrote an admired translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” and he began an innovative project to digitize centuries of scholar

I am very sorry to hear of his passing. Prof. Hollander's translation of the Commedia is not only admirable but accessible. He brought so many new students to Dante in the last 20 years. Arrivederci professore -H. G-L

"Ma Virgilio n’avea lasciati scemi di sé, Virgilio dolcissimo patre, Virgilio a cui per mia salute die’mi" -Dante, Purgatorio XXX

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Inferno, Canto IV

And then they showed me greater honor still, 

for they made me one of their company,

so that I became the sixth amidst such wisdom.

Thus we went onward to the light,

speaking of things that here are best unsaid,

just as there it was fitting to express them.

"It is clear that Dante is putting himself in very good company on the basis of very little accomplishment: a series of lyrics, the Vita nuova, two unfinished treatises, and three cantos of the Comedy. His daring is amazing. However, we ought to consider that most of his readers today will readily agree that he is not only justly included in this company of the great poets of all time between Homer and Dante, but is one of its foremost members. It was a dangerous gesture for him to make. It is redeemed by his genius." - Robert Hollander