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Discussion of Dante

• Dante Club Ch 2
• Summary of Dante (use Bloom or Spark notes
• History sites: Read about Dante's Life and Time on this site
• Read about Medieval Florence
• Review of an 1845 American edition of an English translation of Dante
• Leigh Hunt, Lives of the Italian writers

19th Boston Links

• James Russell Lowell photos
  • Hymn by Lowell
• Henry W. Longfellow bio
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
  • Murder at Harvard
• Ticknor & Fields Publishing
• Boston Brahmins

Dante in Italian (first 9 lines)

As you're reading, you might want to use this circle by circle reference

• Read Divine Comedy Cantos 1-3 (27-46)
• Review Dante's Virgil and speculate about the reason Dante chose this guide
• Look at 3 maps of Dante's hell
• Read a biography of Longfellow

• Dante worlds' circle by circle reference

• Read Dante Club chapters 3-4
• Read Canto 4 (virtuous pagans)
• Read selected poems of Longfellow
• Check out some of the virtuous pagans and read a short article about them

• Read cantos 5-8 (politics)
• Read Dante Club ch. 5-8
• Dante's political vision

• Cantos 9-12
• Read Dante Club ch. 5-8

Online class (message board)

Midterm Study Guide

• Inferno cantos 9-12

• Inferno 13-14
• Dante Club 9-10

• Dante Club 11-12
• Inferno 15-16

• Inferno 17-19

• Dante Club 15-16
• Inferno 20-22

• Inferno 23-24
• Take the Dante Inferno Test

• Lovett's Dante
• Dante 25-26

• Inferno 27-29

Some art links:

• Dante's Florence
• Manuscript Illumination (wonderful collection --search by date or check out the highllights)
• Another excellent manuscript site (in French)
• Some other cool manuscripts
• Masters of Illumination (1400's, France--in depth discussion of Duke de Berry's book of hours)
• early Christian art
• Giotto
• Gothic architecture

• Inferno 30-33