Dante Alighieri

(1265-1321)

 

Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He was born in Florence; he died and is buried in Ravenna. The name Dante is, according to the words of Jacopo Alighieri, a hypocorism for Durante. In contemporary documents it is followed by the patronymic Alagherii or de Alagheriis; it was Boccaccio who popularized the form Alighieri.

His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia by the author and later nicknamed Divina by Boccaccio, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.^[1]

In Italy he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta) or just il Poeta. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language".

 

Dante and His Time

by Karl Federn

with an Introduction by A. J. Butler, 1902

 

The Cryptography of Dante

by Walter Arensberg, 1921

 

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed Translation, 1932/50

Introduction by the late C. H. Grandgent

The Modern Library

 

Dante's Paradiso

Italian Text with English Translation and Comment

by John D. Sinclair, 1939/61/77

 

On World -Government

Translated by

Herbert W. Schneider

with an introduction by

Dino Bigongiari, 1949/57

 

Dante

by Thomas G. Bergin, 1965

 

Dante Alighieri: His Life and Works

by Paget Toynbee

edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography

By Charles S. Singleton, 1965

 

Divine Comedy

by Dante

Translated by Mark Musa,

 

La Vita Nova

(Poems of Youth)

Translated with an Introduction by

Barbara Reynolds, 1969

 

The Divine Comedy

Volume I: Inferno

Translated with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by

Mark Musa, 1971

 

The Divine Comedy

Volume II: Purgatory

Translated with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by

Mark Musa, 1981

 

The Divine Comedy

Volume III: Paradise

Translated with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by

Mark Musa, 1984

 

Dante

by George Holmes, 1980

Past Masters Series

 

THE DIVINE COMEDY

THE INFERNO. THE PURGATRIO, and THE PARADISO

by Dante Alighieri

Translated by John Ciardi, 2003