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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb29b73 --- /dev/null +++ b/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> + <title>Dante's Inferno Translations</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css"> +</head> +<body> + <h1>Dante's Inferno: A Comprehensive Resource</h1> + <p>Cantos 1-34 with translations by Henry Francis Cary (1814), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867), and Charles Eliot Norton (1891).</p> + <p>Being the most popular of the three parts, the Inferno speaks for itself and functions as a complete work on its own, delivering a timeless, full narrative arc. <i>"Any attempt to summarize its philosophical content or significance is to a certain degree an act of folly."</i> + Rather than commit such folly, I defer to <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/#ComDivCom">this</a> thoughtful and succinct examination from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. + </p> + <div class="about-section"> + <h2>About The Translations:</h2> + <h3>Cary's</h3> + <p>A background in studying French and Italian literature. + Written in blank verse. + One of the earliest complete English translations of the Commedia. + William Blake reportedly had thought Cary's translation to be "superior to all others". + </p> + <h3>Longfellow's</h3> + <p>American poet and professor of Italian at Harvard College. + Written in blank tercets. First complete translation by an American author. + Prior to writing, the formation of the "Dante Club" in order to study the literature included amongst the group: + Charles Eliot Norton. + </p> + <h3>Norton's</h3> + <p>American author and professor of Art at Harvard College. + First complete prose translation of the Commedia by an American author; + departing from the conventional and also intrinsic poetic structure of the original text. + </p> + </div> + <div class="additional-study"> + <h2>Additional Study:</h2> + <p>I came across these websites that offer neat resources and supplementary material to Dante, The Divine Comedy and Inferno.</p> + <p><a href="https://www.worldofdante.org/index.html">World of Dante</a> - A very comprehensive study resource of the material. A+ for its web design.</p> + <p><a href="https://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/">Danteworlds</a> - A very well-made interactive experience with unique commentary that is well worth reading.</p> + <p><a href="https://dante.dartmouth.edu/">Dartmouth Dante Project</a> - Searchable database of scholarly commentaries on the Divine Comedy.</p> + <p><a href="https://dantecomedy.com/welcome/glossary/">Dante Comedy</a> - A glossary/index of names & places in the Inferno. Contains a lot more tid bits of information that is missing from here.</p> + <p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_Inferno">A Gallery of Inferno</a> - A collection of Gustave Doré's illustrations to accompany the Inferno.</p> + </div> + + <p>All content on this page is in the public domain - + [<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1008">1</a>], + [<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1001">2</a>], + [<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1995">3</a>]. + </p> + + <div class="nav"> + <label>Jump to Canto: + <select id="cantoSelect"> + <option value="">Select Canto</option> + </select> + </label> + <button id="translationToggle" onclick="toggleTranslations()">Hide All Translations</button> + <button id="highlightToggle" onclick="toggleHighlighting()">Disable Highlighting</button> + </div> + + <div id="cantos-container"></div> + + <script src="cantos.js"></script> + <script src="cary.js"></script> + <script src="longfellow.js"></script> + <script src="norton.js"></script> + <script src="highlighting.js"></script> + <script src="script.js"></script> +</body> +</html> |