Editor: Deborah Parker

Project Directors: (2007)
Worthy Martin
Daniel Pitti
Dean Abernathy

Project Managers (2007):
Dan Hartnett
Keith Howard

Programmers/Analysts:
Doug Ross

Research Assistant
Danny Wasserman

Advisory Board (2007):
Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia
George Dameron, St. Michael's College
Christian Y. Dupont, University of Virginia Library
Ronald Herzman, SUNY Geneseo
Jason Houston,  University of Oklahoma
Michael Long, SUNY Buffalo
Simone Marchesi, Princeton University
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
Jonathan Nelson, Syracuse University in Florence
Duane Osheim, University of Virginia
Danilo Romei, University of Florence
Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College
Patrick J. Stevens, Cornell University Library
Heather Webb, Ohio State University
Ronald Witt, Duke University
Curtis Wong, Microsoft

Project Support:

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
National Italian American Foundation
The National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a grant of $184,060 to Deborah Parker, Professor of Italian Language and Literature, to extend her electronic teaching resource on Dante's Divine Comedy, The World of Dante. This multi-media website is an educational tool intended to deepen students understanding of Dante's remarkable visual imagination. While many of Dante's comparisons are readily accessible, some depend on knowledge of places or structures in Italy that few readers have seen. The World of Dante currently includes the Italian text of the Inferno, an English translation, illustrations and other visual material for every canto and a scalable map of Hell. The project helps students visualize and understand Dante's remarkable journey through the afterlife. For the past eight years, educators and students at other institutions of higher education and at the secondary school level have benefited from the site.

The grant from the NEH Division of Education will allow Professor Parker to add the Italian text and English translation of Purgatory and Paradise, illustrations to these canticles by Sandro Botticelli John Flaxman, Gustave Dore and other artists, a three dimensional virtual reality map of Hell based on Botticelli's design, a map of Dante's Italy, and photographs of sites and monuments mentioned in the poem.

Texts:

The following two versions of Dante´s Inferno are included in this publication:

The Italian text of the Inferno is that edited by Giorgio Petrocchi and published by Mondadori (Milan, Italy, 1966-67; 2nd ed., Florence, Le Lettere, 1994) for the Edizione Nazionale of the works of Dante sponsored by the Società Dantesca Italiana. Permission to use the machine-readable version of this text was granted by Robert Hollander.  The user is advised that this machine-readable version of that text is intended only for scholarly use by individuals. No reproduction of the text for distribution of any kind is permitted, either by the original publisher or  by the Dartmouth Dante Project, under whose auspices this aid to research--with the kind permission of Professor Petrocchi--is offered to the community of scholars. This text is an exact replica of the Petrocchi text; its only divergence occurs in the form of its punctuation, which accords with American rather than Italian usage.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.  Inferno, trans. Alan Mandelbaum (New York, Bantam Books, 1980, rpt. 1988).  Permission to reproduce Alan Mandelbaum´s translation of the Inferno has been granted by Bantam Books for this publication.

The use of the HTML version of Alan Mandelbaum´s translation of the Inferno was granted by The Institute for Learning Technologies (www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante), Columbia University
 

Illustrations and Photographs:

The reproduction of the 17th century painting, An Allegorical Portrait of Dante, artist unknown, is used by permission of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC).

The copyright to the illustration of the map of Hell is held by Lindsay McCulloch. Publication (print or electronic) or commercial use of this drawing is strictly prohibited.

Other illustrations on this publication were taken from the following books:

Dante con l'espositione di Christophoro Landino, et di Alessandro Vellutello   (Venice: Marchio Sessa, 1564).  Vellutello commissioned the engravings for his commentary. The identity of the artist of these illustrations, which first accompanied Alessandro Vellutello´s 1544 commentary to the Commedia, is unknown.   Abbreviated as Vellutello in captions.

Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Original by Dante Alighieri and Illustrated with the Designs of Gustave Doré (New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1890).  Abbreviated as Doré in captions.

La Divina Commedia di Dante con commenti secondo la scolastica,  ed. Gioachino Berthier (Friburgo, Switzerland, 1892).  Abbreviated as Berthier in captions.

La Divina Commedia illustrata nei luoghi e nelle persone, ed. Corrado Ricci (Milan: Hoepli, 1921).  Abbreviated as Ricci in captions. 

Pistelli, Emenegildo.  Per la Firenze di Dante (Florence: Sansoni, 1921).  Abbreviated as Pistelli in captions.
 

Photographs:

Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs in this publication were taken by Deborah Parker.  Additional photos were provided by  Stefano Albertini (bas-relief of Virgil), Peter Armour (Arnolfo del Cambio, Boniface VIII), Federica Capoferri (Brescia), Andrea Ciccarelli (Pine Cone, Papal Gardens, St. Peter´s), Amy di Pasquantonio (panoramic view of Rome from dome of St. Peter´s), John Dobbins (Mt. Etna), Giuliana Farnoli (Canova, Perseus with the Head of the Medusa), Arthur  Field (waterfall formed by the Acquacheta River), Jennifer Haraguchi (Mt. Etna), and Tom Lukas (Carpeaux, Ugolino; Rodin, Ugolino and his Sons).
 

Copyright and Conditions of Use:

Copyright © Deborah Parker 2000.

All rights reserved. Work in progress published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited by federal law. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without prior written agreement of the publisher. Redistribution or republication of the illustrations or photos, in any medium, requires the consent of the editor, Deborah Parker,  and the notification of the publisher, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Dante Team 1996-2000

Project Directors:
John Unsworth
Daniel Pitti
 

Research Assistants:

Tom Lukas (1996-97)
Meredith Blum (1996-97)
Giuseppe Cavatorta (1996-97)
Jessica Botta (1997)
Bennett Simpson (1997)
Frances Adkins (2000)
 
Programmers/Analysts:

Daniel Ancona (1996-97)
David Cosca (1996-97)
Oludotun Akinola (1996-97)
Kirk Hastings (2000- )
 

Map of Hell:
Lindsay McCulloch (2000)
 
Web Designer:
Bethany Nowviskie (2000)