Status Updates From The Inferno of Dante: A New...

i'm not actually reading this edition but i think it's the same shit in the end lol

canto 6

Będą z tego kłopoty, złudniczo latwo złapać zaspiew Dantego

its descent into hell December

I stopped listening to the audiobook version of "The Divine Comedy" I had begun because it was difficult to understand; I opted for a different translator (A. Mandelbaum) after comparing and contrasting some of the most popular translations using an AI assistant (very helpful!). The audiobook was a very stiff, rigid, "King James-esque" translation by Catholic scholar C. E. Norton - the only option available on Libby.

Losing it over Dante talking about running into guys like Homer and Ovid and them being like “now youre a great poet and one of us” … truly feels like self insert fanfiction lol