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Dante's Divine Comedy


Dante's The Divine Comedy still provides one of life's great literary experiences. Of the many internet sources, try the Encyclopaedia Britannica for a scholarly introduction, the Columbia University's Digital Dante and Dante on the Web sites for an extensive listing of material, and the magnificent Princeton Dante Project to see what multimedia can achieve. You will also need to understand Dante's world, and the Georgetown University's Labyrinth resource and Dante's Realm should start you off. Also useful is Dante and Virgil.


Reading Dante


Everyone tries their hand at Dante translations, The Divine Comedy by Robert Pinsky et al and Purgatorio by W.S. Merwin being the best known of recent attempts, though see also A.S. Kilne's. The translations generally recommended are The Divine Comedy by Charles Singleton (1975) and The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by John Sinclair (1958). Non-Italian speakers should try listening to The Divine Comedy read in the original, and work with one of the many parallel texts. For terza rima in English see Shelley's Triumph of Life, Byron's Prophecy of Dante and Morris's Defence of Guenevere.


Dante resources

Immense resouces exist, mostly of course in Italian. First ports of call are: Digital Dante, Dante Project, Labyrinth and the Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Other excellent listing are to be found at the World Literature and Criticism site, and Otfried Lieberknecht's homepage for Dante Studies. Many Italian university towns run summer courses in Italian language and culture, but those wishing to study Dante in particular could start with the Centro Internazionale Lingua.

Books on Dante Alighieri

For bibliographies start with: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics entries on Italian poetry and terza rima, the Everyman Library's edition of The Divine Comedy (1995), the Princeton Dante Project, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry. Scattered references are to be found in The Internet Medieval Sourcebook. A useful guide is A Concordance to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1965) by Edward Sheldon and Alain White. Poets should try: Dante the Maker by Charles Anderson (1980) and The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and his Times (1980) by Cecil Grayson.
 
 

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