Author:Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
(c. 1265 – 1321)

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Italian poet and statesman, known for his epic poem The Divine Comedy
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Works

Poetry

Divina Commedia (Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso)
Le Rime, collection of poetry
Eclogues (1319–1320) first published 1719.

Prosimetra

Vita Nuova "The New Life" (1295)
Convivio "The Banquet" (ca. 1305) (external scan)

Prose

De vulgari eloquentia "On Eloquence in the vernacular" (ca. 1305)
De Monarchia (ca. 1310)

Compilations

Dante and His Circle, translations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transcription project)
Dante, Petrarch, Camoens: CXXIV Sonnets, translated by Richard Garnett (1896) (external scan)
The Divina Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, 2 vols., translated by Edward Hayes Plumptre
Volume I: (transcription project); Volume II: (transcription project)
A translation of the Latin works of Dante Alighieri, translated by A. G. Ferrers Howell and Philip H. Wicksteed (1904) (external scan)

Works about Dante

Biographies

The Life and Times of Dante Alighieri, 2 vols., by Cesare Balbo, trans. by F. J. Bunbury (1852) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
"Life of Dante", Chapter I of Dante, by Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, 1877.
Dante and his Early Biographers, by Edward Moore, 1890. (external scan)
The Earliest Lives of Dante, translated from the Italian of Giovanni Boccaccio and Lionardo Bruni Aretino, by James Robinson Smith, 1901.

Encyclopedia articles

"Dante," by Alfred Joshua Butler in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
"Dante Alighieri," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Dante Alighieri," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Dante Alighieri," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Dante Alighieri," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Unsorted

A Handbook to Dante, by Giovanni Andrea Scartazzini, translated by Thomas Davidson, 1887. (external scan)
A Companion to Dante, by Giovanni Andrea Scartazzini, translated by Arthur John Butler, 1893. (external scan)
Dante, his times and his work, by Arthur John Butler, 1897. (external scan)
Aids to the Study of Dante, by Charles Allen Dinsmore, 1903. (external scan)
Dante, six sermons, by Philip H. Wicksteed, 6th edition, 1905. (external scan)
"Dante" in The Harvard Classics; Lectures on The Harvard Classics, Volume 51 (1914) by Charles Hall Grandgent
"Dante", a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On his works

"On Translating the Divina Commedia" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (1866) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Review of Lord Vernon's Inferno Di Dante" by Sir Frederick Pollock, 1869. (external scan)
Dante, by Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, 1877.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1924 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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