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Welcome to Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey--combining artistic
images, textual commentary, and audio recordings--through the three realms of
the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy.
The site is structured around a visual representation of Dante's worlds: it
shows who and what appear where. Click on regions within each realm (circles of
Hell, terraces of Purgatory, spheres of Paradise) to open new pages featuring
people and creatures whom the character Dante meets during his journey. Click on
individual figures in the regions to view larger images in pop-up windows.
Available for each region are explanatory notes, a gallery of artistic images,
recordings of significant Italian verses, and study questions--all aimed at
enriching the experience of reading Dante's poetic vision of a voyage literally
out of this world. Danteworlds is conceived as a complement to--not replacement
of--the experience of reading and discussing Dante's Divine Comedy. It is
therefore recommended that you first read the cantos describing a particular
region (click here for links to the text in electronic form) and then visit that
region in Danteworlds.
 

 
Danteworlds is "an invaluable resource for specialists and novices alike,"
writes E. S. Hierl (Harvard University) in Choice Reviews Online, "the sort of
multimedia experience that those in the digital humanities strive for" (August,
2010). The subject of an interview in Life & Letters, Danteworlds was selected
in 2008 by EDSITEment! (National Endowment for the Humanities) as "one of the
best online resources for education in the humanities." It was featured in the
literary blogs of the New Yorker (Jan. 8, 2009) and the Los Angeles Times (Jan.
14, 2009).





Dante's Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy, published by Harvard University Press,
is a richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body
shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World
War I, and Mussolini's fascist dictatorship. The Danteworlds Web site contains
an abridged version of the original commentary contained in The Complete
Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Divine Comedy (2009) and Danteworlds: A
Reader's Guide to the Inferno (2007), both published by the University of
Chicago Press. The Complete Danteworlds also features historical overviews of
the three realms, plot summaries for each region (circles of Hell, terraces of
Purgatory, spheres of Paradise), a chronology of major events in Dante's life,
illustrations of the three realms, a map of Italy in the 13th Century,
additional study questions, and an extensive bibliography (classical and
medieval sources as well as modern studies and translations).




 


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