What's the best translation of The Divine Comedy?

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I wonder how many times I've seen this thread...Hmnn...

Anyway, I reject whenever students call Dante's work Divine. It should be just Comedy. That's what Dante calls it, and for a number of reasons. First, it describes the ultimate trajectory of the poem which ends in happiness, working from catastrophe to cohesion. Secondly, Dante adopts the vernacular, the so-called vulgar, Italian tongue, rather than Latin which was at the time the language of philosophy and great cultural exchange. In this sense he is being humble, rather than having a high-style like an elegiac tragedy. Thirdly, the implication is that there is no neat, clear separation in his hierarchy from the high, middle, and low. The Pilgrim's ascendence to see the face of God and comes back to earth to tell of the Love that moves the sun and the other stars is really a sign that the low can become the high and the high can become the low. That which is humble such as the experience he is describing can find extraordinary religious ecstasy which can convey revelation, not being the revelation itself but the exposition of it and more than all its lessons.

PS I prefer John D. Sinclair's Oxford tomes for a more prosaic translation, and Mark Musa's translation for something more lyrical.

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here's a chart that might help you
Also want to ask this, if you don't speak Italian is English generally the best option for a translation? Just wondering if French or Spanish may be better

don't bother, it's not that funny

>>8312601
Is this pasta?

>>8312662
Not yet.

>>8312601
>I wonder how many times I've seen this thread...Hmnn...

Really? I've been on here for about a year now and only seen maybe 2 or 3 of this thread but usually they got archived before anyone posted.

>>8312767
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=comedy+translation&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=op&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post