Russian-American linguist, medievalist & 1st amendment nerd. Posts re: poetry, translation, and history of sundry Indo-European & Semitic languages
My readings of Shakespeare in reconstructed early 17th century pronunciation continue with Sonnet 64 ("When I have seen by time's fell hand defac'd...")
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My readings of Shakespeare in reconstructed early 17th century pronunciation continue with Sonnet 64 ("When I have seen by time's fell hand defac'd...")
Here's me reading the whole of Canto 1 of Dante's (https://mastodon.social/tags/Inferno) in my English verse-translation.
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Here's me reading the whole of Canto 1 of Dante's #Inferno in my English verse-translation.
Basically, I enjoyed the Chantilly manuscript of the Inferno so much that one thing led to another and I wound up making this.