La Pleiade to release a new translation of Dante's work

The prestigious Pleiade library will publish a new translation of the poem

by the great Florentine thinker and writer Dante Alighieri, as he had done for two other giants of world literature, Shakespeare and Cervantes, announced on June 28 the Gallimard editions.

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The Divine Comedy

translated by Jacqueline Risset is due out in a bilingual edition on September 30, 700 years after the writer's death.

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", specified Gallimard in his program of publication of the Pléiade.

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Jacqueline Risset, poet, critic, academic, is recognized as one of the great specialists of the epic poem in three parts (

,

,

). She died in 2014 at the age of 78. Its translation was initially published between 1985 and 1990 by Flammarion, a publishing house which is now part of the same group as Gallimard.

The translation

of Dante's

published in 1965, including

, by the Pléiade had been produced by the academic André Pézard. Its uniqueness, with a language that incorporates a sometimes difficult medieval French, has made it the target of many criticisms. However, this work has long been considered a reference, as Gallimard had defended in his bulletin when it was first published: “

"

The English playwright William Shakespeare has been in the Pleiad of successive translations, the first being published in 1938. As for the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes's

, translated for the first time in 1934, was translated the second time in 2001.

Composed between 1303 and 1321 by the Florentine poet Dante, in a language, the Italian of Tuscany, which is then in its literary beginnings,

is one of the founding texts of world literature, a vast allegorical journey through the torments of love, faith and creation.