The Divine Comedy - Barnes & Noble Leatherbound review + comparison

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Here is my review (and comparaison) of the Barnes & Noble leatherbound classics edition of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.
The comparison is against the Everyman Library edition and the Arcturus edition.
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The larger edition of the Divine Comedy which is visible here is the edition by Arcturus (UK only).
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@quasimodowonthecake 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much this has been a most helpful review and has definitely made up my mind!

@MsGnor 9 ай бұрын

Wow Denis, how far you've come in 5 years!! Love your beautiful Divine Comedy collection. Mind-boggling etchings. Adore the 'cinematic' version artwork. Labour of love for all who produced these masterpieces 🥰❤‍🔥

@FoolishFishBooks 9 ай бұрын

Wow this goes back xD

@Nicolas.samsoniuk 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the Review of this piece of art my friend !! unfortunately, those books are too expensive in my country.(4 times the original price) But, thanks to you, I can, at least, see it better than by photos. thank you very much !!! Hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

@capturedbyannamarie 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Super helpful. I have the Everymans edition and I am glad I went with that one after seeing this.

@donaldcoppersmith1018 4 жыл бұрын

There were color illustrations of the Divine Comedy done centuries ago shown by Bodleian Libraries. I wonder if there are reproductions of this publication.

@Liscinov Жыл бұрын

Excellent review! I'm getting this edition for my birthday and this seems to be pretty good. While the Longfellow translation isn't really my favorite either(I personally prefer the Ciardi translation), Gustave Dore's illustrations seem to help better understand the story of the book.

@jasondaniels1647 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could insert a photo. I have a Dante all most as big as the last one you showed but a little smaller, it will fit my shelf. But it was printed on 1948 by Pantheon Books. Same photos and translation as yours.

@Bezmenov93 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful edition!

@CC-pt3di 4 жыл бұрын

Dear good sir, may I please ask if this has the complete 135 plates illustrations of Gustave Dore?

@FoolishFishBooks 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure if I just never answered this or if my answer got erased when I migrated the channel: yes, all the plates are present.

@Galoomp142 3 жыл бұрын

excellent review, thank you. But the Arcturus book you linked it not the same, the linked version is only 24cm and it's the slip-cased edition.

@johnnyjohnny2650 3 жыл бұрын

Wait, so there's no footnotes? Someone told me there was. Can you recommend a version, or separate book, that adequately explains the Comedy, in detail, for absolutely beginners? Thank you.

@azu957 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@vermili0n 3 жыл бұрын

this is so awesome... i'm jealous, i want a whole library room full of occult books and classics like the diving comedy. always been a dream of mine

@MrGunwitch 4 жыл бұрын

Love it. What's your pick of edition for Milton's Paradise Lost Denis?

@555TheMrMe 4 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks Enjoying your reviews. Do you have a review of this book?

@80hd49 2 жыл бұрын

im aware there are a lot of different translations to this book to understand it in a more modern sense . is this edition favorable for a beginner to “the divine comedy” ? and will i be able to understand it ? thanks and i am very grateful for all that you do !

@FoolishFishBooks 2 жыл бұрын

This translation is the best known mostly because it's in the public domain, so publishers can publish it for free. I definitely prefer the Everyman edition, but it doesn't have Gustave Doré's gorgeous illustrations.

@turtleanton6539 4 жыл бұрын

Wow what is that big book?

@eetukilpelainen 4 жыл бұрын

Apologize for bothering, but are there other difference between the Classic collection and Arcturus edition? I noticed that the Classic collection has a bit over 300 pages more than the Arcturus edition, though this may be due to the size difference. Other than that they seem to be the same, though I am uncertain.

@FoolishFishBooks 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you, the Arcturus edition has 2 columns of text per page, whereas the B&N edition only has 1. Other than that, is the same translation, just bigger pictures and nicer paper on the Arcturus edition 😜

@eetukilpelainen 4 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks Thank you, this has helped me a great deal. I found the Arcturus edition more aesthetically pleasing so I was more interested in that one, but didn't want to risk losing content by choosing a book by it's cover. And no need to worry, we all have our own lives to live, and I do appreciate you taking time from yours to answer my trifling question.

@QuaesitorDei Жыл бұрын

ooohhhhhhhhh i didnt know the everymans library edition was illustrated! Thats on the list. ive got the Arcturus and canterbury classic editions but i dismantled the Arcturus edition for the huge plates for some cheap decoration. The everymans library books have been catching my eye lately, cloth binding is my thing.

@FoolishFishBooks Жыл бұрын

The Everyman's is my favourite translation, just no illustrations.

@lisachristina7332 7 ай бұрын

Says ingin beli ini kitab, bagai mana cara beli

@mansesong9304 5 жыл бұрын

Hi i got a question. I live in europe as well and i use to order the books from barnes and noble.com. But since they dont ship to europe anymore i wondered where do you order your barnes and nobles books?

@Shinyluci 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, Fish I got a question not sure if u can help or not, but I was wondering are Barnes and Noble signed editions stamp signed or hand signed? thnx 4 your time.

@FoolishFishBooks 2 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid I don't know.

@Shinyluci 2 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks okay no problem thank you for the reply anyway💙

@amjoshuaf 5 жыл бұрын

Please tell me where you got the Dante bust and whether I, a poor person, can afford it?

@amjoshuaf 5 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. I checked ebay too but the nice ones are all fairly expensive. Makes sense I suppose.

@amjoshuaf 5 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks Ah thanks. I found one on amazon.ca but I had to search from google to find it.

@fabricesimon9706 3 жыл бұрын

Does Barnes and noble sell those in any other languages? Let's say French

@ashrafjehangirqazi1497 Жыл бұрын

A de luxe edition of the collected writings, talks, interviews, etc of Noam Chomsky will one day be a treasured possession should the world avert the doom he has so eloquently, ably, uncompromisingly, and faithfully warned us against, along with sage advice on how to do so.

@salmalas798 3 жыл бұрын

What about the translation in the last book?

@Soulful96QC 3 жыл бұрын

The last book has the same translation as the first :)

@TheTerre86 3 жыл бұрын

"Fatti non foste per vivere come bruti ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza"

@Anicius_ 2 жыл бұрын

Allen abuses poetry and calls it translation

@Archonsx 2 жыл бұрын

botticelli illustrations are so bad

@bachelorofstuff 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know about these editions... they all look like those jewellery boxes from TJ Maxx that are supposed to look like old-timey books, as if burglars were dumb enough not to notice a huge-ass "antique" volume sitting on the shelf sandwiched between dystopian YA novels and old perfume boxes.