Additional Resources

View more in A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome | Intro: From the dark wood to Rome

Short Videos: La Divina Commedia in HD (with English subtitles)

The most important Dante websites for further research:

a) Dante Online (website of Società Dantesca Italiana: all the works, best bibliography, links, manuscript images)

b) The Princeton Dante Project  (all the works in Italian and English, (searchable), Hollander translation and commentary, images, reference, maps, links, audio of the Italian)

c) Digital Dante (all the works, images, maps, links, resources, including the on-line commentary by Teodolinda Barolini)

d) The World of Dante (text, images, maps, links)

e) Danteworlds (images, audio, commentary, guides)

f) Dante Today (gathers “Citings and Sightings” and bibliography of Dante in the arts and contemporary culture)

g) The Dante Society of America website (information on student essay prizes, publications, events, and the American Dante Bibliography, downloadable)

h) The Devers Family Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame (and the Center for Italian Studies)

Recommended texts and supplementary resources:

Dante Alighieri Inferno, translation by Robert and Jean Hollander, commentary and notes by Robert Hollander (New York: Doubleday, 2000); Understanding Dante, John Scott (Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 2004); The Cambridge Companion to Dante, ed. Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge UP, 2nd edition, 2007);  Dante in Context, ed. Zygmunt G. Baranski and Lino Pertile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015); The Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia, ed. Zygmunt G. Baranski and Simon Gilson (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

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Theodore J. Cachey Jr.