Iconografia Dantesca. by Ludwig Volkmann
Access the entire text of Volkmann's 1899 volume, exploring not only the actual illustrations of the work throughout the centuries, but also Dante's influence on art in a broader sense, as well as the influence visual and sculptorial art had on his poem.
Volkmann' Iconografia Dantesca (in English)
Fidelity to Text and Tone as Criterion
Here you can find the transcript of a lecture delivered by Eugene Paul Nassar at Syracuse University in 1999. It advocates the need to strive towards as high as possible a degree of faithfulness to the text, and to an extent "condemns" more liberal, personal, or abstract, interpretations such as Dali's.
Nassar's lecture
14th Century Manuscript from the Bodleyan Library
This page contains information about an early manuscript of the Divine Comedy housed in the Bodleyan Library at Oxford University. It photographically reproduces several pages or details of this intersting manuscript, which is not among those viewable at danteonline.it.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/holkham/misc/048.a.htm
Maps
Interactive Maps of Dante's Inferno, plus interactive maps of Florence, Italy, and Europe in Dante's time (from the Museo Casa di Dante) maps
Maps and tables illustrating the geo-cosmological structure of the realms of the afterlife in Dante's Comedy.
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/maps/index.html
Portraits of Dante
An online collection of portraits of the sommo poeta, by artists as different as Raphael and Walt Disney.
http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/dante/multimedia/ritratti_dante/ritratti.htm
Statues of Dante
Statue of Dante in Piazza Dante, Naples
Statue of Dante in Piazza dei Signori, Verona
Statue of Dante in Piazza Dante, Mantua
Statue of Dante in the Public Gardens in Trento
Dante Alighieri's genealogical tree
An online concordance to the Comedy
UNC Dept. of Romance Languages
The Falcon, the Beast and the Image: Dante's Geryon and W.B. Yeats' The Second Coming
My M.A. thesis analyzing the rielaboration of Dantean imagery in the famous poem by Yeats, who was heavily influenced by Blake's and Dore's illustrations.
read my thesis
Comparative Dantes
The electronic version of my paper for ENGL 841, discussing the major differences between Blake and Flaxman's visual readings of Dante, with a focus both artists' illustrations of Inferno's second canto
read my paper
My Blog
A link to the blog for my ENGL 841 class at UNC-CH with prof. Joe Viscomi, for which this page was created.
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