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Show HN: My first attempt at redoing Dante's Inferno in English

• chunky1994 15y ago
  I'd be grateful if you'd tell me what you think! (Scroll down from the illustration for the text I wrote, in case you missed it due to lack of clarity)
• garethsprice 15y ago
  Being an uncultured rube, what was the original language? Did you translate it or take an archaic English version and modernize the language? Did it rhyme to begin with or did you have to come up with a translation that rhymed?
  • chunky1994 15y ago
    (I highly doubt an uncultured rube could be a member of HN) The original language was Italian, and yes, I read a translated version which did not rhyme. I was the one who came up with a version that rhymed. (This isn't strictly a translation of Inferno, it's more like my interpretation of it.)
    • hsmyers 15y ago
      Interesting illustration. You might have gotten more recognition using the one of the Dore's though. Like this one http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/images/dore/inf_01a.jpeg http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/images/dore/inf_01a.jpeg found at http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/images/dore/inf.html http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/images/dore/inf.html but that is just my .02 cents worth (always been a Dore fan). Liked the text as well although I missed it at first, can't see dark text on black all that well...
      • chunky1994 15y ago
        Ah, well, yes they're (Dore's) quite appealing, but I think the one I'm currently using covers the whole of inferno. Is the text really that unclear? (I can read it quite easily)
  • gte910h 15y ago
    Dante's Inferno was written in Italian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante) The work is a poem, and has some rhyme in the original Italian; the type of rhyme is called Terza Rima and is hard to do in English.