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“... them have penetrated.’ Of these three new translations of Dante (not all of them quite new, for Allen Mandelbaum’s was first published ten years or so ago), Mandelbaum’s and Pinsky’s belong firmly in the second class, whilst Ellis’s, which makes a point of the modernity of its idiom, aspires perhaps a little ...”

“... what it points to, throws light on, or mimes. Take the first of two versions of ‘Mattina’ by Allen Mandelbaum: I illumine me with immensity We could go on about how much is missed: the colloquial ease, the visual comedy. But these absences are the condition for what has successfully been registered: the reflexiveness of the verb and the formal ...”