It's contemporary, and at points laugh-out-loud funny.One of the aspects of the text Mary Jo Bang foregrounds in the new translation is the vernacular, the shifting high-then-low language of the original. The Divine Comedy was not written in Latin. It was written in the vernacular, a Tuscan dialect that prefigured modern Italian. According to Bang, "Making everything feel contemporary, making the English contemporary seems to serve Dante's project."
from The Brooklyn Rail: Translation: Inferno
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