Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
Dante's Inferno.
Don't stop at Inferno! Read the whole Divine Comedy! I've read several different translations, but the best was one in Modern English. Many translations do a short of Early Modern English with 'ye' and such, but they're really no closer to the original Medieval Italian. It's just window dressing to give it a spurious 'old fashioned' feel.

Purgatorio is my favourite.

'Oh, mankind, born to fly,
Why do you fall to earth at the first breath of wind?'