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A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three cantiche (parts) was made by Cunningham in 1966. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography [13] and Società Dantesca Italiana [] 's international ...
Dante is an Italian given name and surname. Etymologically , it is short for an old given name, Durante , and was first made popular by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri , whose real name was Durante.
A Dictionary of the Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee (Oxford: Clarendon, 1898) Columbia University's Digital Dante: features the full text in Italian alongside English translations from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Allen Mandelbaum.
The first formal biography of Dante was the Vita di Dante (also known as Trattatello in laude di Dante), written after 1348 by Giovanni Boccaccio. [71] Although several statements and episodes of it have been deemed unreliable on the basis of modern research, an earlier account of Dante's life and works had been included in the Nuova Cronica of ...
In the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid (one of the principal influences on Dante in his depiction of Hell), the hero Aeneas enters the "desolate halls and vacant realm of Dis". [4] His guide, the Sibyl, corresponds in The Divine Comedy to Virgil, the guide of "Dante" as the speaker of the poem.
The Reverend Henry Francis Cary (6 December 1772 – 14 August 1844) was a British author and translator, best known for his blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography
Ichabod Charles Wright (11 April 1795 [1] – 14 October 1871 [2]) was an English scholar, translator, poet and accountant. [3] He is best known for his translation of important works of Italian literature, notably the works of Dante's Divine Comedy.
The Convivio is a major stage of development for Dante, very different from the visionary world of the Vita Nuova (although like the earlier work it too is a medium for the author’s evolving sense of artistic vocation and philosophical-spiritual quest).