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Dante's Inferno: A Comprehensive Resource

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Cantos 1-34 with translations by Henry Francis Cary (1814), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867), and Charles Eliot Norton (1891).

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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. "Any attempt to summarize its philosophical content or significance is to a certain degree an act of folly." - Rather than commit such folly, I defer to this thoughtful and succinct examination from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. -

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About The Translations:

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Cary's

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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". -

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Longfellow's

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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. -

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Norton's

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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. -

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Additional Study:

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I came across these websites that offer neat resources and supplementary material to Dante, The Divine Comedy and Inferno.

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World of Dante - A very comprehensive study resource of the material. A+ for its web design.

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Danteworlds - A very well-made interactive experience with unique commentary that is well worth reading.

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Dartmouth Dante Project - Searchable database of scholarly commentaries on the Divine Comedy.

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Dante Comedy - A glossary/index of names & places in the Inferno. Contains a lot more tid bits of information that is missing from here.

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A Gallery of Inferno - A collection of Gustave Doré's illustrations to accompany the Inferno.

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