@VileLasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #1902358
2026-03-10 21:02 UTC
@Gargron Back in my pretentious high schooler days I read Dante's Comedy and, don't know where from, the version I found was one that was like... fully translated as poetry, like in the Italian* original, going as far as trying to replicate the rhyme structure
No computer's ever going to pull off anything even remotely that mad
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@maco@wandering.shop 2026-03-10 22:47
@VileLasagna @Gargron oh that’s probably John Ciardi’s translation
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@darkling@mstdn.social 2026-03-11 23:28
@VileLasagna @Gargron I've read a few translations (into English) of the Divine Comedy, and the one that attempted to replicate the terza rima was 19th century, and (to me) almost unreadably difficult to deal with. Victorian translators weren't all that good, by modern standards, in my (admittedly fairly limited) experience.