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The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri was translated into French and Spanish and other European languages well before it was first translated into English. In fact the first English translation was only completed in 1802, almost 500 years after Dante wrote his Italian original. The lack of English translations before this is due in part to Dante's Catholic views being distasteful, or at least uninteresting, to Protestant English audiences, who viewed such a Catholic theology, mixed with references to classical mythos, as heretical.

Since 1802, however, the Divine Comedy has been translated into English more times than it has into any other language, and new English translations continue to be published regularly, so that today English is the language with the most translations by far. A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three books (cantiche; singular: cantica) up until 1966 was made by Cunningham.^[1] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with (incomplete) additions between 1966 and the present. Many more translations of individual cantos from the three cantiche exist, but these are too numerous to allow the compilation of a comprehensive list.

Publication date	Name	Nationality	Parts translated	Form	Notes
1782	Charles Rogers	UK	Inferno	blank verse	First translation of a full cantica into English
1785-1802	Henry Boyd	UK	Comedy	rhymed 6-line stanzas	First full translation of the Comedy in English.
1805-1814	Henry Francis Cary	UK	Comedy	blank verse	Available online. Volume 20 in the Harvard Classics series.
1807	Nathaniel Howard	UK	Inferno	blank verse
1812	Joseph Hume	UK	Inferno	blank verse	one of the two 'worst' translations according to Cunningham
1833-1840	Ichabod Charles Wright	UK	Comedy	rhymed 6-line stanzas
1843-1865	John Dayman	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1843-1893	Thomas William Parsons	United States	Comedy (incomplete)	quatrains and irregular rhyme
1849	John Aitken Carlyle	UK	Inferno	prose
1850	Patrick Bannerman	UK	Comedy	irregular rhyme	one of the two 'worst' translations according to Cunningham
1851-1854	Charles Bagot Cayley	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1852	E. O'Donnell	UK	Comedy	prose
1854	Thomas Brooksbank	UK	Inferno	terza rima
1854	Sir William Frederick Pollock	UK	Comedy	blank terzine
1859	Bruce Whyte	UK	Inferno	irregular rhyme
1859-1866	John Wesley Thomas	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1862	William Patrick Wilkie	UK	Inferno	blank terzine
1862-1863	Claudia Hamilton Ramsay	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1865	William Michael Rossetti	UK	Inferno	blank terzine
1865-1870	James Ford	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1867	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	United States	Comedy	blank terzine	First complete American translation. Available online.
1867-1868	David Johnston	UK	Comedy	blank terzine
1877	Charles Tomlinson	UK	Inferno	terza rima
1880-1892	Arthur John Butler	UK	Comedy	prose
1881	Warburton Pike	UK	Inferno	terza rima
1883	William Stratford Dugdale	UK	Purgatorio	prose
1884	James Romanes Sibbald	UK	Inferno	terza rima
1885	James Innes Minchin	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1886-1887	Edward Hayes Plumptre	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1887	Frederick Kneeller Haselfoot Haselfoot	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1888	John Augustine Wilstach	United States	Comedy	rhymed stanzas
1889-1900	William Warren Vernon	UK	Comedy	prose
1891-1892	Charles Eliot Norton	United States	Comedy	prose	Translation used by Great Books of the Western World. Available online at Project Gutenberg.
1892-1915	Charles Lancelot Shadwell	UK	Purgatorio and Paradiso	Marvellian stanzas
1893	George Musgrave	UK	Inferno	Spenserian stanzas
1893	Sir Edward Sullivan	UK	Inferno	prose
1895	Robert Urquhart	UK	Inferno	terza rima
1898	Eugene Jacob Lee-Hamilton	UK	Inferno	hendecasyllabic blank terzine
1899	Philip Henry Wicksteed	UK	Paradiso	prose
1899	Arthur Compton Auchmuty	UK	Purgatorio	octosyllabic terza rima
1899-1901	Samuel Home	UK	Purgatorio (incomplete: I-XXXI only)	hendecasyllabic blank terzine
1901	John Carpenter Garnier	UK	Inferno	prose
1901	Thomas Oakey	UK	Purgatorio	prose
1902	Edward Clarke Lowe	UK	Comedy	blank terzine
1903-1909	Edward Wilberforce	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1903-1911	Sir Samuel Walker Griffith	UK	Comedy	hendecasyllabic blank terzine
1904	Caroline C. Potter	UK	Purgatorio and Paradiso	rhymed quatrains
1904	Henry Fanshawe Tozer	UK	Comedy	prose
1904	Marvin Richardson Vincent	United States	Inferno	blank verse
1905	Charles Gordon Wright	UK	Purgatorio	prose
1908	Frances Isabella Fraser	UK	Paradiso	blank terzine
1910	Anges Louisa Money	UK	Purgatorio	blank terzine
1911	Charles Edwin Wheeler	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1914	Edith Mary Shaw	UK	Comedy	blank verse
1915	Edward Joshua Edwardes	UK	Inferno	blank terzine
1915	Henry Johnson	United States	Comedy	blank terzine
1918-1921	Courtney Langdon	United States	Comedy	blank terzine
1920	Eleanor Vinton Murray	United States	Inferno	terza rima
1921	Melville Best Anderson	United States	Comedy	terza rima
1922	Henry John Hooper	UK	Inferno	unrhymed amphiambics
1927	David James MacKenzie	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1928-1931	Albert R. Bandini	United States (born in Italy)	Comedy	terza rima
1928-1954	Sydney Fowler Wright	UK	Inferno and Purgatorio	irregularly rhymed decasyllables
1931	Jefferson Butler Fletcher	United States	Comedy	defective terza rima
1931	Lacy Lockert	United States	Inferno	terza rima
1932-1935	Geoffrey Langdale Bickersteth	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1933-1943	Laurence Binyon	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1934-1940	Louis How	United States	Comedy	terza rima
1938	Ralph Thomas Bodey	UK	Comedy	blank verse
1939-1946	John Dickson Sinclair	UK	Comedy	prose
1948	Lawrence Grant White	United States	Comedy	blank verse
1948	Patrick Cummins	United States	Comedy	hendecasyllabic terza rima
1948-1954	Thomas Goddard Bergin	United States	Comedy	blank verse
1949-1953	Harry Morgan Ayres	United States	Comedy	prose
1949-1962	Dorothy Leigh Sayers	UK	Comedy	terza rima	Penguin Classics edition. After Sayers' death in 1957, Paradiso XXI-XXXIII completed by Barbara Reynolds.
1952	Thomas Weston Ramsey	UK	Paradiso	defective terza rima
1954	Howard Russell Huse	United States	Comedy	prose
1954-1970	John Ciardi	United States	Comedy	defective terza rima	Inferno recorded and released by Folkways Records in 1954.
1956	Glen Levin Swiggett	United States	Comedy	terza rima
1958	Mary Prentice Lillie	United States	Comedy	hendecasyllabic blank terzine
1961	Warwick Fielding Chipman	UK	Inferno	terza rima
1962	Clara Stillman Reed	United States	Comedy	prose
1965	William F. Ennis	UK	Comedy	dodecasyllabic terza rima
1965	Aldo Maugeri	Italy	Inferno	blank terzine
1967-2002	Mark Musa	United States	Comedy	blank verse	An alternative Penguin Classics version.
1970-1991	Charles S. Singleton	United States	Comedy	prose	Literal prose version with extensive commentary; 6 vols.
1980-1984	Allen Mandelbaum	United States	Comedy	blank verse
1981	C. H. Sisson	UK	Comedy	?	Oxford World's Classics
1994	Steve Ellis	UK	Inferno	?	Chatto & Windus ^[2]
1995	Robert Pinsky	United States	Inferno	terza rima
1996	Peter Dale	UK	Comedy	terza rima
1996-2007	Robert M. Durling	United States	Comedy	prose	Oxford University Press
2000	W. S. Merwin	United States	Purgatorio	?
2000-2007	Robert and Jean Hollander	United States	Comedy	blank verse	Online as part of the Princeton Dante Project.
2002	Ciaran Carson	Ireland	Inferno	terza rima	Granta Books
2002	Michael Palma	?	Inferno	terza rima
2002-2004	Anthony M. Esolen	United States	Comedy	blank verse	Modern Library Classics.
2006-2007	Robin Kirkpatrick	?	Comedy	?	A third Penguin Classics version, replacing Musa's
2009-2017	Stanley Lombardo	United States	Comedy	blank terzine	Hackett Classics
2010	Burton Raffel	United States	Comedy	?	Northwestern World Classics
2012	J. Gordon Nichols	UK	Comedy	?	Alma Classics
2013	Mary Jo Bang	United States	Inferno	?	Graywolf Press^[3]
2013	Clive James	Australia/UK	Comedy	quatrains	Picador
2017	Peter Thornton	United States	Inferno	blank verse	Arcade Publishing

References

^ Gilbert F. Cunningham, "The Divine comedy in English: a critical biography 1782-1966". 2 vols., Barnes & Noble, NY; esp. v.2 pp.5-9

^ Balmer, Josephine (13 March 1994). "BOOK REVIEW / The lost in translation: 'Hell' - Dante Alighieri". The Independent. Retrieved 20 April 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

^ https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/inferno-0

[1] Gilbert F. Cunningham, "The Divine comedy in English: a critical biography 1782-1966". 2 vols., Barnes & Noble, NY; esp. v.2 pp.5-9

[2] Balmer, Josephine (13 March 1994). "BOOK REVIEW / The lost in translation: 'Hell' - Dante Alighieri". The Independent. Retrieved 20 April 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

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