The Art of Translating Dante.

Author / Editor
Sayers, Dorothy L.

Title
The Art of Translating Dante.

Published
Nottingham Medieval Studies 9 (1965): 15-31.

Description
Surveys and comments on English poetic translations of Dante's "Commedia" from Chaucer to Laurence Binyon, opening with mention of the Ugolino episode from MkT (based on "Inferno" XXXIII 1-90), followed by quotation of SNP 8.36-56, calling it a "rendering of great beauty" of "Paradiso" XXXIII, 1-2, and observing Chaucer's alterations of the original.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Second Nun and Her Tale
Monk and His Taale