Dante lovers out there might like to check out a site I’ve just come across: Danteworlds.
This is intended as a study guide to the Divine Comedy. Here’s the explanation for the site:
[It is] an integrated multimedia journey–combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings–through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The site is structured around a visual representation of Dante’s worlds: it shows who and what appear where. Click on regions within each realm (circles of Hell, terraces of Purgatory, spheres of Paradise) to open new pages featuring people and creatures whom the character Dante meets during his journey. Click on individual figures in the regions to view larger images in pop-up windows. Available for each region are explanatory notes, a gallery of artistic images, recordings of significant Italian verses, and study questions–all aimed at enriching the experience of reading Dante’s poetic vision of a voyage literally out of this world.
In addition to the multimedia section, there is also a short section of links to other sites on Dante.
It’s a good introduction to the work or a good refresher for those who haven’t read it in a while.
Posted by Amy as Multimedia at 1:33 AM EST