Today is the anniversary of the death in 1321 of Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy. That masterpiece can be read online in English translation here (James Finn Cotter), here (Longfellow and/or Mandelbaum) and here (Henry F. Cary). Botticelli did illustrations of the Inferno, the Paradiso and the Purgatorio; Gustave Dore's illustrations are here; John Flaxman's can be viewed here; William Blake's are here; Salvadore Dali also did striking illustrations: Inferno, Paradiso and Purgatorio. An audio edition of the Longfellow translation is here. The Princeton Dante Project has some interesting resources. The World of Dante is "a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy". The Dartmouth Dante Project is a searchable data base with extensive commentaries.
L'Inferno is a silent Italian film from 1911 that is based on Dante's work:
Franz Liszt wrote A Symphony to Dante's Divine Commedia:
Inferno part 1 of 3:
part 2, part 3
Purgatorio part 1 of 3:
part 2, part 3
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