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A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it. By Eric Bulson The Divine Comedy is more than 14,000 lines long and is divided into three parts, but it’s the first part, the Inferno, that gets all the attention. For centuries, readers have preferred the horrors of hell to the perfection of heaven. Gustave Doré, the celebrated French illustrator, did elabo- rate engravings for the three canticles in the mid-19th century and devoted 99 out of 135 of them to Dante Ali- ghieri’s darkest scenes. …
摘自《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic)第337卷 第2期 · 2026年2月2日,Eric Bulson。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。