Link: http://digitaldante.columbia.edu/
Project Status: Ongoing
A collection of online texts and resources pertaining to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, hosted by Columbia University’s Department of Italian and its Center for Digital Research and Scholarship.
| Digital Dante is an innovative multimedia resource for the study and interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy and other works. Alongside a digital edition of the poem, which houses the original Petrocchi edition together with the Longfellow and Mandelbaum translations, Digital Dante includes a commentary by Teodolinda Barolini, and digitized images of early print editions from Columbia’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. The site incorporates innovative methods of approach to studying Dante’s Comedy in context and showcases recent developments in critical scholarship on Dante and medieval literary culture. These include sections dedicated to Intertextuality and Bibliography. |
Resource details:
Resource Type: Bibliography, Downloadable data, Images, Manuscripts/Facsimiles, Multimedia, Teaching Resources, Text: Medieval, Text: Modern, Video
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: English
Language of Modern Translation: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 1250 - 1350
Subject: Art, Classics, Humanism, Clergy, Cosmology, Education, Universities, Iconography, Music, Nobility, Gentry, Papacy, Philosophy, Theology, Piety, Political Thought, Religion - Institutional Church, Royalty, Monarchs, Saints, Scriptural Exegesis, Theology, Towns, Cities
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Allegorical, Commentary, Gloss, Exegesis, Literature, Prose, Textual Evidence, Treatises, Verse
Geopolitical Region: Europe, Italy
Original Language: Italian, Latin
Medieval Creators: Dante Alighieri