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Translator's Note (1954) to Dante, The Inferno (1308-1320) - Ciardi, John | WIST Quotations
When the violin repeats what the piano has just played, it cannot make the same sounds and it can only approximate the same chords. It can, however, make recognizably the same "music," the same air. But it can do so only when it is as faithful to the self-logic of…