Italian Literature and Linguistics : Dante

The new International Dante Bibliography has been launched through the collaboration of the two of the oldest organizations dedicated to the study of Dante and the integration of their previous bibliographic research tools: the Società Dantesca Italiana, which created and has maintained since 1999 the previous Bibliografia Dantesca Internazionale in Italian, and the Dante Society of America, which created and has maintained since 1952 its Annual Dante Bibliography, initially published in the Society’s annual journal, Dante Studies, and subsequently on the Society’s website.

This web site contains high-resolution full colour digital images and highly-detailed transcriptions of seven key early manuscripts of Dante’s Commedia – some of the most precious and beautiful surviving copies of the poem. It contains the text of two landmark print editions, those of Giorgio Petrocchi (1966) and Federico Sanguineti (2001). It offers a full word-by-word collation of the text, showing all variants at every word, viewable in either the original manuscript spelling or in a standardised form.

Il sito è articolato in quattro sezioni: Dante e le arti, Dante e il cinema, Dante a teatro, Sezione didattica. I contenuti delle prime tre sono espliciti (le modalità le scoprirete navigando). La sezione didattica è articolata in quattro parti: Unità Didattiche, Tesi Magistrali e di Dottorato, Tesi Triennali, Video e Power Point. Tutto il materiale è di accesso facile e gratuito.Si ricorda, a ogni modo, che tutto il materiale è coperto da copyright.

Dante Lab is an online application that allows students and scholars of the Divine Comedy to read and compare up to four texts from the site’s database simultaneously; these texts include Giorgio Petrocchi’s critical edition, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1867 translation, and more than 75 commentaries from the fourteenth century through today. The objective of Dante Lab is to create a virtual workspace that accounts for the needs of both students and novices to the poem, as well as serious scholars engaged in contemporary Dante Studies. For this reason, the Dante Lab reader was inspired by the ‘analogue’ workspace of the professional Dantista, who needs quick and easy access not only to the text of the poem’s three canticles, but also to the early commentaries, notes from numerous recent editions, and a concordance that facilitates philological research and interpretive criticism.

Contains information on Dante's life, works, manuscripts, and a bibliography.

This website archives references to Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture, of the twentieth century and beyond. Dante “sightings” and “citings” range from the cursory to the extensive, and from a place of superficial knowledge of Dante and his works to deep familiarity with them.

The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) combines modern information technology with nearly seven hundred years of commentary tradition on Dante's major poem, the Commedia.

The DDP, originally developed between 1982 and 1988 (when a prototype was opened to public use), is an ongoing effort to put the entire texts of more than 75 commentaries into a searchable database that anyone can access via the World Wide Web. This gives scholars easier access to the full texts of many important, and, in some cases, difficult to obtain works.

HDN-Lab VRE is conceived to support the Hypermedia Dante Network, an Italian National Research project (PRIN) funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). HDN-Lab is a VRE designed to allows scholars to collect knowledge about commentary of Dante’s works, focussing on issues of language, style and intertextuality. Through the VRE, it is possible to insert data in our knowledge base using a dedicated web tool. Furthermore, HDN-Lab allows scholars to share documents, discuss issues and collaborate to the development of the project.

The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site.