Nel Mezzo Del Cammin: What Dantes First Line Really Means And Why Translators Disagree
Every Italian schoolchild knows these seven words by heart. They’re the opening of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the most famous line in Italian literature. Yet ask ten translators to render them into English, and you’ll get ten different poems. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I, Line 1 I’ve spent … Read more