Henry Boyd's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.

I am not a theologian, medieval historian, Dante expert, or astrologist. However, I am a delver of old English poetry, and regardless of accuracy, I personally find the poetical interpretation (if nothing else) of Henry Boyd to be beautiful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Boyd_(translator)

It was released in 1802 in three volumes, under the title of Divina Commedia. However, every single printed edition of the three volumes I have seen previewed online (including the risky "reprints" you can buy on various websites) is absolutely riddled with printing errors. Below is an online print of his Paradiso:

https://archive.org/details/divinacommediaof03dantuoft/page/186

So instead of "the song", it reads "the fong", etc., and there are literally hundreds of other such examples.

I do not have too much hope (I know Henry Boyd does not come up often when discussing translations of the Divine Comedy) but does anyone happen to know of a clean source of Boyd's original complete translation, online or otherwise?

I would also be interested in reading the opinions of his translation in general from Dante experts, whether good or bad, heh.

Thank you kindly for any assistance. :)

I’ve separated the Henry Boyd page and assigned him the number 3:

https://www.librarything.com/author/boydhenry-3

There may be some aliasing to do, but I didn’t look far. Added his Wikipedia page link.

>2 2wonderY: Thanks for getting back to me, and that is awesome! Good to know he has been assigned and included in this website, heh.

Divine Comedy

Apparently nobody has entered him as translator of their copy.

>1 VoicelessTorment:

Those aren't "f"s. They are long s's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

ETA: oops, I see someone answered that in your other thread.

>5 lilithcat: Indeed they did, and now I am very happy, hehe. Thank you kindly for responding anyway. ^_^