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Dante: Background info: Encyclopedias, Companions, & Dictionaries
Research tools and resources on Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Encyclopedia Collections
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Full text dictionaries, encyclopedias, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press. - Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive database of poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, author biographies, topic overviews, and critical essays.
Online Resources about Dante
- Oxford Bibliographies: Dante AlighieriA bibliography of resources related to Dante Alighieri.
- Dante (Biography)Gale Online Encyclopedia, Gale, 2017. Literature Resource Center.
- Overview: Divine ComedyEpics for Students, edited by Sara Constantakis, 2nd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2011. Literature Resource Center.
- La Vita de DanteDante Online. Società Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri - La vitaMuseo Casa di Dante, Florence, Italy.
- Enciclopedia DantescaPublished 1970–1975 by the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
- Dizionario biografico degli ItalianiCompleted in 2020.
Print Resources About Dante
- Aids to the Study of DanteHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903
- The Age of Dante: a Concise History of Italian Culture in the Years of the Early RenaissanceDomenico Vittorini, 1957.
- Il dizionario della CommediaRiccardo Merlante, 1999.
- A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of DantePaget Jackson Toynbee, Charles S. Singleton. 1968.
- Rimario della Commedia di Dante AlighieriArianna Punzi, 2001.
Concordances
- La Commedia di Dante : indiceVittorio Sermonti, 2001. (Concordance.)
- A Concordance to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.Dante Society of America
In the Reference Collection (library-use only)
Suzzallo Library, 1st Floor
- Enciclopedia dantesca5 vols. Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1970-1975.
Suzzallo Reference: PQ4333 .E5 - The Dante encyclopediaEd. Richard H Lansing; 2000.
Suzzallo Reference:PQ4333 .D36 2000 - A concordance to the Divine comedy of Dante AlighieriDante Society of America, 1965.
Suzzallo Reference: PQ4464 .W5 - Dizionario biografico degli ItalianiIstituto della Enciclopedia italiana.
Suzzallo Reference: CT1123 .D5 - Concordanza delle opere italiane in prosa e del Canzoniere di Dante Alighieripub. per la Società dantesca di Cambridge, Massachusetts, a cura di E.S. Sheldon coll'aiuto di A.C. White