Melville Best Anderson

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About Melville Best Anderson

Melville Best Anderson was a scholar and Unitarian known for his translates of the Divine Comedy.

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person Full name Melville Best Anderson
cake Date of birth January 1, 1851
event_busy Date of death June 22, 1933

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La Divina Commedia: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
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1922
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La Divina Commedia: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original Book · Melville Best Anderson · 1922
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original is a 1922 translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, published by Melville Best Anderson. This work was originally written by Alighieri in circa 1320 CE and includes three separate sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. This version has been praised by scholars as being one of the first complete works translated in the English language. chrome_reader_mode Read now

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Role: Translator

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La Divina Commedia: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original Book · Melville Best Anderson · 1922
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original is a 1922 translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, published by Melville Best Anderson. This work was originally written by Alighieri in circa 1320 CE and includes three separate sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. This version has been praised by scholars as being one of the first complete works translated in the English language. chrome_reader_mode Read now

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Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original. Translated by Melville B. Anderson. Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company, 1922.
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Anderson, Melville B., trans. "Inferno by Dante: English Translation." In The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original, 1-142, by Dante Alighieri. Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company, 1922.
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