{"id":255266,"date":"2007-08-29T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/29\/a-new-paradiso\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:43","slug":"a-new-paradiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/29\/a-new-paradiso\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Paradiso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New Yorker<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2007\/09\/03\/070903crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all\">tells us about<\/a> our newest opportunity to get on to the Dante bandwagon:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t yet read the Divine Comedy\u2014you know who you are\u2014now is the time, because Robert and Jean Hollander have just completed a beautiful translation of the astonishing fourteenth-century poem. The Hollanders\u2019 Inferno was published in 2000, their Purgatorio in 2003. Now their Paradiso (Doubleday; $40) is out. It is more idiomatic than any other English version I know. At the same time, it is lofty, the more so for being plain. Jean Hollander, a poet, was in charge of the verse; Robert Hollander, her husband, oversaw its accuracy. The notes are by Robert, who is a Dante scholar and a professor emeritus at Princeton, where he taught the Divine Comedy for forty-two years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker tells us about our newest opportunity to get on to the Dante bandwagon: If you haven\u2019t yet read the Divine Comedy\u2014you know who you are\u2014now is the time, because Robert and Jean Hollander have just completed a beautiful translation of the astonishing fourteenth-century poem. The Hollanders\u2019 Inferno was published in 2000, their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[5426,5406,2136,5416],"class_list":["post-255266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-commedia","tag-dante","tag-ejvl","tag-paradiso"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362806,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266\/revisions\/362806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}