none 10.1017/9789048505241 Cambridge University Press (CUP) Cambridge University Press 56 123553108 3366551 2022061100354723963 10.1017 2022-06-11T06:08:43Z 2021-01-22T19:18:34Z 1 Ronald de Rooy Recent Dante Translations in America and the Netherlands <div>The difficulty of translating Dante has, paradoxically, created a steady of flux of translations. Around the year 2000, seven <i>cantiche</i> were translated by Dutchmen and seven by Americans, giving rise to a seminar on the state and tradition of translating Dante in both countries. In the course of discussing these landmark translations, contributors to this volume inevitably make statements about how Dante's masterpiece should be read: as a poem, to be translated fearlessly and confrontationally; as a scholarly text, to be treated cautiously and rigorously; or as some combination of the two?</div> 1 01 23 2021 08 26 2003 9789048505241 Amsterdam University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Co-Access 10.1515/9789048505241 10.1017/9789048505241 https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048505241/type/book