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

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

Maps of the epic poem

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

Map of Dante's Hell, Columbia College, New York, New York

By Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1450–1516) - "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things", painting by "Hieronymus Bosch", Public Domain

Special Collections Libraries (a sampling)

Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian (search, Dante), Bodleian Library, Oxford University

The Fiske Dante Collection, Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections

La Commedia.Divina commedia, Florence, Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481.[372] leaves, Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections Division

The comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence commonly called the Divine comedy : a line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original by Melville Best Anderson, Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, Stanford, California

The Brescia Dante : with a leaf from the illustrated edition of 1487 printed by Boninus de Boninis : and two essays, Dante Alighieri, universal poet, UWM Libraries Special Collections, (Digital Exhibits), Milwaukee, Wisconsin also, at APU Rare Books PQ4302 .A873 B74 1975 published by Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University, 1975).

Dantes Werke, Dante Alighieri, Albert Ritter (Hrsg), 1922.

Dante's Werke, Dante Alighieri, Albert Ritter (Hrsg) (scan from original book) Public Domain. " Albert Ritter sketched the Comedy's geography from Dante's Cantos: Hell's entrance is near Florence with the circles descending to Earth's centre; sketch 5 reflects Canto 34's inversion as Dante passes down, and thereby up to Mount Purgatory's shores in the southern hemisphere, where he passes to the first sphere of Heaven at the top."

Mapping the Inferno, Antonio Manetti di Tuccio Manetti (1423 - 1497)

 

"By Antonio Manetti di Tuccio Manetti - Cornell University: Persuasive Cartography, The PJ Mode CollectionBenivieni, Girolamo. Dialogo di Antonio Manetti: Cittadino fiorentino circa al sito, forma, & misure del lo infero di Dante Alighieri poeta excellentissimo. Florence: F. di Giunta. Manetti's work was published in 1506 with an edition of the Divine Comedy; the copy in the collection is from a separate edition, undated, which "may be of about 1520." Gilbert 1945, 289 n. 3. Public Domain."