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    <body><![CDATA[As though I could really give Dante anything but five stars?  Seriously, The Inferno in general and this edition in particular is a great read.  Anthony Esolen does a great job of not only placing the book in its historical context (almost anyone who can write numbers can do that), but also of helpi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18465252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could kiss the professor of my Concepts of Punishment course at CAL for making me read this book. I had no idea at the time how much I would think about it during my lifetime. I was just thinking about the lovers in the second circle today, almost ten years after I first read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure where the copy of the book came from.  The copyright is one year before I was born, but I don't remember picking it up in a used book store.  But I guess that's neither here nor there.<br/><br/>I wish I could honestly check off 5 stars and say that my eyes were opened.  That I really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44424534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a joy to read literature that is not only well executed, but beautiful in spirit!  Dante's work is one of the pillars of western literature, and justly so.  Conceived and executed in a poetical form called &quot;terza rima&quot; and functioning on multiple levels of meaning simultaneously, the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59662757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading this book yesterday and will be interviewing Pinsky today.  The interview will be available at: <br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2008/09/04/Translated-By-Hosted-by-Shaindel-Beers-" title="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2008/09/04/Translated-By-Hosted-by-Shaindel-Beers-">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2008...</a><br/><br/>This is seriously the best translation of The Inferno that I can imagine.  Of course, I don't know Italian, so I c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31986140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When a student does not like a book they will often say they cannot &quot;relate&quot; to it.  This is a poem I cannot relate to at all.  I can roll with Dante when he is lost in the dark word.  As soon as he enters the Inferno, however, the work baffles me.  I cannot understand the justice of etern...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14867406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grotesque, intense, confusing...<br/><br/>Hell is a very exciting place.  While I'm sure a huge portion of it was over my head and I should reread it, I still managed to understand basically what was going on.<br/><br/>I liked how you could sense a sort of mockery in parts of it.  The popes and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38899760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dante's Inferno.  One of my favorite favorite favorite books.  I confess I've never read the entire Divine Comedy, but Volume 1, The Inferno, is in my opinion one of the greatest works ever written.  I own two different translations of this, because since it is a translation, each english version wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78369927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This classic tale, told in poetry, of man's descent into hell is exceptional. But I have to give an extra half star for this translation and notes (Penguin Classics). The explanations given were fantastic and really enhanced my reading experience (which one expects but rarely receives from footnotes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77736608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a book written in Italy, and was clearly horribly translated to the point it loses all impact.  <u>The Inferno</u> is a book about a totally biased queer who writes about him traveling to hell.  There, he receives Virgil as his guide and jollily travels along hell's circles (levels).  There, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52777163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After completing this book, it made me have a clearer image of how people felt and thought about Christians and non-Christians. Usually, the ones that do not believe in Jesus are thought of as evil, and is depicted in Dante's hell as someone that is not pleasant, with red eyes and a monster like fig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46484442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Inferno is a story about the author Dante's journey into Hell.  He is guided by the spirit of Virgil, the personification of reason.  Each of the nine circles of Hell are home to a particular type of sinner, and their punishment is related to their sin.  For example, the murderers and warmongers are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80189482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another work which has always suffered from bad translations.  Pinsky does a fantastic job making the language modern and working out his own type of terza rima that uses approximate rhyme to avoid the mangling of the English language to fit the triple rhyme scheme which is so easily achieve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12310412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Este deve ser um dos melhores livros que já li. A primeira parte da Divina Comédia do Dante é tão importante e bem escrita que já criou até um adjetivo - o &quot;dantesco&quot; (como em &quot;uma cena dantesca&quot;), que se refere ao inferno desesperador e miserável criado pelo italiano.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80721228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another week, another masterwork I'm ashamed to admit I haven't read sooner.<br/><br/>Dante's <em>Inferno</em> is a lot of different things: It's the text that legitimized Italian as a worthy literary language. It's a piece of proselytizing propaganda that intended to terrify the masses into good Catholic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72381493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just recently finished this book and it was ok. It was very challenging to read because it was written as a epic and the words inside this epic were challenging. The way Dante the poet wrote the book was always challenging because he wrote in a way it was hard for us readers to understand.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44001715">more...</a>]]></body>
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