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How does one review The Divine Comedy?

I'll stick to reviewing Sayers's translation.

She's one of the few English authors to actually stick to the terza rima (the rhyme scheme that goes aba bcb c), which on the one hand makes this feel more like poetry, but on the other hand can lead to some extremely tortured syntax as she tries to make the rhymes fit the meaning. It was sometimes hard to even understand what was happening.

I really enjoyed her footnotes, especially her interpretations of the "images", as she calls them. Sayers is the only devoted Catholic translator I've read of the Divine Comedy, and sometimes it's very useful to get the perspective of someone who takes this all seriously and wants to make the theology align with a modern perspective.

I don't think I'd recommend her as the only Dante to read, but she's an invaluable interpretator to combine with one or two others.