The Dante Alighieri Page
( 1265-1321 )
Dante's Works
The New Life (1292). Translated by Mark Musa. Oxford, 1992. See also Musa's Portable Dante Penguin, 1995.
The Banquet (1304-1307).
The Eloquence of the Vernacular (1304-1307). In Literary Criticism of Dante Alighieri. Translated and edited by Robert S. Haller. Nebraska, 1973.
On World Government (1312-1313). Monarchy. Translated and edited by Prue Shaw. Cambridge, 1996.
" Letter to Can Grande della Scala ". Translated by Nancy Howe in Musa, ed., Essays on Dante. See About Dante below. Also in Robert S. Haller, above.
The Divine Comedy (?1307-1321). The following translations of the Divine Comedy may be recommended :
The Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed Translation. Introduction by C.H. Grandgent and bibliography by Ernest H. Wilkins. Vintage Books, 1959. A prose translation.
Translated with commentary by John D. Sinclair. Oxford, 1961.
Translated by C.H. Sisson with an introduction and notes by David H. Higgins. Oxford, 1993. Contains drawings and diagrams.
John Ciardi
Translated into blank verse by Louis Biancolli. 3 volumes. Washington Square, 1966.
Translated, with a commentary by Charles S. Singleton. 6 volumes. Princeton, 1975. Each of the three parts has a volume of notes.
Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds. 3 volumes. Penguin, 1955. Notes and diagrams.
The John Ciardi Translation. Norton, 1970.
A verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum. 3 volumes. California, 1982. Bantam, 1986.
Translated by Mark Musa. 3 volumes. Penguin, 1986. The Portable Dante. Penguin, 1995.
The Inferno. Inferno. Edited and translated by Robert M. Durling. Introduction and notes by Ronald L. Martinez and Robert M. Durling. Oxford, 1996. Volume I of a projected translation of the entire Comedy.
See also Dante's Inferno. The Indiana Critical Edition. Translated and edited by Mark Musa. Indiana, 1995. Notes, several critical studies, and bibliography.
About Dante
Michele Barbi, Life of Dante. Translated by Paul G. Ruggiers. Berkeley, 1954.
Thomas G. Bergin, Dante. Orion, 1965.
Giovanni Boccaccio and Pietro Aretino. The Earliest Lives of Dante.Introduction by Francesco Basetti-Sani. Ungar, 1963.
Wallace Fowlie, A Reading of Dante's Inferno. Chicago, 1981.
Rachel Jacoff, The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Cambridge, 1993. Fifteen essays on various aspects of Dante studies. Suited to all readers.
Mark Musa, Editor, Essays on Dante. Indiana, 1964. Classic short studies of Dante.
Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century. Cambridge, 1958.
Dante Alighieri on the Web
Dante's Divine Comedy from About.com. Highly commercialized but provides Italian text and English translation.
Dante's 'Clickable' Inferno
Catholic Encyclopedia entry
Roman Catholic doctrine of Purgatory from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Dante Alighieri from Bartleby.
Digital Dante Project under construction at Columbia University.
Dante Criticism from Internet Public Library.
Renaissance Dante in Print
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