Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Life of Dante
- 2 Dante and the lyric past
- 3 Approaching the Vita nuova
- 4 From auctor to author: Dante before the Commedia
- 5 Introduction to Inferno
- 6 Introduction to Purgatorio
- 7 Introduction to Paradiso
- 8 Dante and the Bible
- 9 Dante and the classical poets
- 10 Allegory and autobiography
- 11 A poetics of chaos and harmony
- 12 The theology of the Comedy
- 13 The poetry and poetics of the creation
- 14 Dante and Florence
- 15 Dante and the empire
- 16 Dante and his commentators
- 17 Dante in English
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
Further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2007
- Frontmatter
- 1 Life of Dante
- 2 Dante and the lyric past
- 3 Approaching the Vita nuova
- 4 From auctor to author: Dante before the Commedia
- 5 Introduction to Inferno
- 6 Introduction to Purgatorio
- 7 Introduction to Paradiso
- 8 Dante and the Bible
- 9 Dante and the classical poets
- 10 Allegory and autobiography
- 11 A poetics of chaos and harmony
- 12 The theology of the Comedy
- 13 The poetry and poetics of the creation
- 14 Dante and Florence
- 15 Dante and the empire
- 16 Dante and his commentators
- 17 Dante in English
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
Summary
The most useful reference book at present is The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing (New York: Garland. 2000). For those who know Italian the Enciclopedia dantesca, ed. Umberto Bosco (Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1970-78) is a valuable resource. The journal Dante Studies publishes a yearly “American Dante Bibliography.”
DANTE TRANSLATIONS
I have listed below some of the most reliable and well annotated translations, all of which are now available in paperback.
Durling, Robert M. and Ronald L. Martinez. Inferno and Purgatorio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 and 2003.
Hollander, Robert and Jean. Inferno and Purgatorio. New York: Doubleday, 2000 and 2003.
Mandelbaum, Allen. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. New York: Bantam Classic, reissued 2004.
Singleton, Charles S. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970–75.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Dante , pp. 305 - 307Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007