SparkNotes
Inferno by Dante Alighieri: Study Guide - Mini Essays
For this online interactive literature activity, students respond to 7 short answer and essay questions about Dante's Inferno. Students may check some of their answers online.
Curated OER
Inferno
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Dante's Inferno. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Dante's Inferno
Learners examine Dante's trip through Hell. In this literature lesson, students read The Inferno and then collaborate to discuss moral redemption and create their own maps of Hell based on the poem. Written descriptions are required to...
Curated OER
The Renaissance
In this Renaissance instructional activity, students read a 2 page article covering The Renaissance period, answer 5 facts with multiple choice answers and answer 5 statements true or false.
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin: Danteworlds
The University of Texas at Austin: Danteworlds
Other
The World of Dante
A multidisciplinary interactive site that explores Dante's Divine Comedy. Find the texts of all three sections presented in both Italian and English. Significant people, places, creatures, deities, structures, images, and music are also...
Other
The World of Dante
A comprehensive and interactive study of Dante Alighieri's most famous work, The Divine Comedy. Study this enormously rich text with the help of maps, diagrams, music, a timeline and a gallery. See the Italian/English text side-by-side...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
This is the full text of the epic poem The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante including all three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature: Allusion and Symbols: Dante's Inferno
This lesson focuses on Dante's Inferno: Cantos 1-34 from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. It includes links to the Digital Dante website to read the work, handouts, and a discussion rubric.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Digital Dante
Learn all about Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet and author of "The Divine Comedy." Includes a biography and a timeline of his life and work.
University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide: The Divine Comedy
Conveniently divided into Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, this site allows one to read Dante's classic poem online, or download the text. Illustrations appear when the text is read online.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri
Read the entire Rev. H. F. Cary translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, available in multiple formats.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Trans. Longfellow
A free full text of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, available in multiple formats.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Dante Alighieri
A brief description of the works of Dante Alighieri and a link to his poem "Upon a day, came Sorrow in to Me," from the Last Canto of Paradiso.
Smart History
Smarthistory: Dante's Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art
Smarthistory article explores the relationship between Dante and the visual arts and how the Divine Comedy played an important role in the creation of a great many outstanding works of art.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Dante Alighieri Sketch
From Harvard's Chaucer Page, it focuses mainly upon how Alighieri influenced Chaucer, but you can view some texts of his here. This is a great site to check out on the subject.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Alighieri Dante
This site features the author Dante Alighieri including the full text of the epic poem The Divine Comedy.
Other
The World of Dante: Map Images
Interactive map images from Dante's "Inferno." With reproduced maps of Italy from the time of Dante's life (1300s).
Other
Uwm Libraries: Dante and Divine Comedy
Browse through a collection of pages on Dante focusing on the importance of his work, "The Divine Comedy".
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Dante
Find out more about Dante's work when you explore this informative site. This resource provides links to lesson plans and activities for the "Divine Comedy."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dante's Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art
Because of Dante's image-driven descriptions in "Divine Comedy", many artists have sought to illustrate his text through a wide variety of media. This essay will look at two outstanding examples of how Dante's words fed the creative...
University of Notre Dame
Ital Net: Renaissance Dante in Print: Chronology of Dante Alighieri (1265 1321)
One page chronology of important events in Dante's life.
TES Global
Blendspace: Dante's Inferno
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, videos, maps, and assessments to use before, during, and after reading Dante's Inferno.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Dante Biography
Extensive biography with links to important times and figures relating to Dante's life. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated around 1910.