Un bacio e un diluvio di traduzioni: due terzine del canto di Francesca in inglese dal 1782 al centenario del 1865

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Abstract

As a Tribute to Dante to commemorate the sixth centenary of his death, Paget Toynbee published as a chronological list the complete corpus of English-language Dante translations from Chaucer to January 1921. Following the chronology established by Toynbee, the present contribution offers the text of all the English translations of the last two tercets of Francesca’s speech in canto V of the Inferno, from 1782 to the centenary celebrations in 1865.
Original languageItalian
Pages (from-to)957-977
Number of pages21
JournalCritica Letteraria
Volume192-193
Issue number3-4
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jun 2021

Keywords

  • Centenario
  • Paolo e Francesca
  • Peacock
  • Toynbee
  • traduzione centenary
  • Paolo and Francesca
  • translation

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