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And also, going back to Pete Atikin's homepage for that website, Clive actually died at the weekend, and his death was announced today when his funeral was held.
His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy is very very good. It was a book I had really struggled to get into or understand at Uni, the translations before were very dry and hard to follow. That must have taken some serious work, translating from Latin and keeping the metre and rhythm of the original into accessible, easy to read English.
I loved how he could produce the highest of highbrow culture like that as well as something like this...