The inferno dante text
Dante's Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the two poets begin their descent through a baleful world of doleful shades, horrifying tortures, and unending lamentation. This edition of the Inferno is edited in XML ( Extensible Markup Language which allows users to perform searches for a wide range of entities across the entire poem. Above the Italian and English texts users will see a band listing six categories. Click on any of these terms for a list of the Creatures, Deities, Images, People, Places, and Structures found in each canto. Information will appear 1) as abbreviations in the margin between the Italian and English versions (ie PL for Place) and 2) in list form to the right of the English translation. Click on any terms listed under the categories for additional information. Readers can view at a glance the wide range of expressions that Dante uses to characterize people, places, creatures and other entities throughout the poem Every canto also contains visual material, keyed to specific passages. Click on Images to view a list of the visual material available for each canto. To view the images click on the terms or names in the right margin. Follow the links for additional information on the images. The letter I between in the margin between the English and Italian texts indicates the passage which the image illustrates. At all timers users can also access an interactive version of Botticelli's Chart of Hell, maps of Italy, additional visual material, and an interactive timeline. All these features are intended to deepen readers' appreciation of the richness of Dante's poetic.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell, by Dante Alighieri This e Book is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this e Book or online at Title: Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Author: Dante Alighieri Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Posting Date: April 12, 2009 [ EBook 1001] Release Date: August, 1997 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIVINE COMEDY * Produced by Dennis Mc Carthy OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) CANTICLE I: INFERNO CREDITS The base text for this edition has been provided by Digital Dante, a project sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies. Specific thanks goes to Jennifer Hogan ( Project Editor/ Director Tanya Larkin ( Assistant to Editor Robert W. Cole ( Proofreader/ Assistant Editor and Jennifer Cook ( Proofreader). The Digital Dante Project is a digital 'study space' for Dante studies and scholarship. The project is multi-faceted and fluid by nature of the Web. Digital Dante attempts to organize the information most significant for students first engaging with Dante and scholars researching Dante. The digital of Digital Dante incurs a new challenge to the student, the scholar, and teacher, perusing the Web: to become proficient in the new tools, e.g., Search, the Discussion Group, well enough to look beyond the technology and delve into the content. For more information and access to the project, please visit its web site at: For this Project Gutenberg edition the e-text was rechecked. The editor greatly thanks Dian Mc Carthy for her.
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Signet (lassies. 'jw THE IN Translated by John Ciardi Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 Fresh and sharp. I think [ Ciardi'sl version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen. — John Crowe Ransom Considered Italy's greatest poet, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was the scion of a Florentine family who mastered the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work, La Vita Nuova ( 1 292 was a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. Dante's political activism resulted in his being exiled from Florence, and he eventually settled in Ravenna. It is be- lieved that The Divine Comedy — comprising three canticles, The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso — was writ- ten between 1 3 John Ciardi (1916-86 a distinguished poet and professor, taught at Harvard and Rutgers universities and served as po- etry editor of the Saturday Review. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1955, he won the Harriet Monroe Memorial Award and the Prix de Rome in 1956. Archibald T. Mac AHister (1905-66) taught at Yale and at Brown University before joining the Princeton faculty in 1940, where he taught the advanced course in the Divine Comedy. He was chair of the Italian section of the Department of Ro- mance Languages at Princeton, and contributed many arti- cles on Dante to scholarly publications, including the entry on Dante in A Dictionary of Moral Philosophy. Prof. Edward M. Cifelli has taught at colleges and universi- ties for nearly forty years. He has written biographies of poets David Humphreys and John Ciardi, and a memoir, Routine Miracles. He has also edited or compiled books of letters, poetry, and bibliography. He contributes regularly to magazines and journals publishing articles about poetry and.