Dante: Dante Collections & Websites

A 1544 edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy featuring commentary by Alessandro Vellutello. Published in Venice by Francesco Marcolini, this edition stands out not only for its scholarly significance but also for its artistic innovation. Read the announcement of the acquisition .
Special Collections Rare Books: PQ4302 .B44 1544

Call Number: Special Collections Rare Books PQ4310 .C2 1531
Publication Date: 1531
Melchiorre Sessa, active 1506-1549, printer.

A multimedia translation of The Divine Comedy that integrates multimedia, hyperlinked text commentary, and other materials (Columbia University).

Compare limitless combinations of the poem, translations, and commentaries. Read the poem with facing-page translation. Browse 700 years' worth of commentaries.

A curated, crowd-sourced repository for “citings” and “sightings” of Dante and his work in contemporary culture.

The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy. Users engage the poem dynamically (University of Virginia).

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 (University of Texas at Austin).

The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

Provides side-by-side texts in Italian and English of major and minor works; line-by-line access to centuries of commentaries on the Commedia, including a modern English commentary; audio recordings of the entire Commedia in Italian and of selected Cantos in English; classic Dante illustrations searchable by canto and line of the passages they illustrate; and other materials.

Life, Works, Manuscripts, Bibliographies, and more. In Italian and English (Società Dante Alighieri/Italian Dante Society).

A DH project featuring the illustrations of scenes in The Divine Comedy, celebrating "the influence the Comedy has had on the world's artistic heritage".

A 1564 edition of La Divina Comedia from Arévalo, Spain.

In the 1564 edition held by Brandeis University, the poem is encircled by commentaries from Christoforo Landino, Allesandro Vellutello, and Francesco Sansovino, all of whom were well-known Dante critics of their respective times.

An online exhibition of illuminated Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Images from illustrated editions of Dante Alighieri’s poem found in the Fiske Dante Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Highly readable and browsable format.

Includes biographical info, criticism, and commentaries. (In Italian.)

Digitized manuscripts. Search keywords: Dante Alighieri.

Eliot, T.S. “Dante” Selected Essays of T.S. Eliot. Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online.