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Faculty Seminar in the Liberal Arts: Dante (Divine Comedy): Internet Resources

This guide was developed for the 2016 Faculty Seminar in the Liberal Arts and was originally created by Luba Zakharov.

Other Resources

EWTN Live:  Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, Dr. Edmund Mazza and Tatyana Mazza discuss Dante's, The Divine Comedy.

Multi-Media Guides

Dantesworld, University of Texas at Austin

The World of Dante, Parker, Deborah (Editor) sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia

Treasures of the Bodleian: Dante, The Divine Comedy, YouTube,  Library, Oxford University

Digital Dante, Columbia University in the City of New York

Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)

Dante's Illustrated Adventure, Villanova University (a library exhibit)

Dante Lab: a digital Dantista tool for The Divine Comedy (hosted by Dartmouth)

Review samples

Joan Acocella, "What the Hell - Dante in translation in Dan Brown's new novel,"  The New Yorker, May 27, 2013.

David Bentley Hart, Dante DeCluttered:  A Review of the Divine Comedy, First Things, November 2013 Issue

Different Editions of The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy, Longfellow (Project Gutenberg)

Organizations

Dante Society of America, established by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton with worldwide chapters.  Publishes the annual, Dante Studies. (not currently available)

The Royal Collection Trust, established in 1987 by the Department of the Royal Household, is responsible for the care of the Royal Collection of Her Majesty The Queen and the official London residence of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.