5 "Must Ask" Questions for Teaching Dante's Inferno | Circe Institute. Earlier this year, I wrote a five-part series on Dante’s Inferno entitled “Blogging through Hell”, a collection that grew out of teaching the great work this spring. Along with those articles, which served as outlets for some thoughts that incessantly swirled around my head while teaching, I want to provide a bit of practical help for any who might be teaching or reading the Inferno in days to come. I realize that this post may come at a particularly unhelpful time, given that for most, the school year is drawing to a close, but there is never a bad time to think about Dante. The questions we ask are among the most significant (or are the most significant) considerations in teaching and reading, so here are a handful that I found helpful during my most recent trip through the Inferno. 1.Should Dante go with Virgil into hell (Cantos I-II)?
Dante himself seems unsure. Granted, Dante’s choices seem few. 3.Compare circle one (the abode of the “virtuous pagans”) with later circles. Mrs. Bell [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Dante's Inferno. Medieval Music "Vox Vulgaris - Cantiga 166" Musica Antiqua - Festive Sounds - Medieval. 1 - Hour of Early Middle Ages Music. "Due Ancoliti" - Music from 14th. century Italy. Gawain Novel Introduction. The nine circles of hell from Dante's Inferno recreated in Lego by Mihai Mihu. Inferno. The Princeton Dante Project (2.0) Dante_chart.pdf. The World of Dante. Dante's Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the two poets begin their descent through a baleful world of doleful shades, horrifying tortures, and unending lamentation.
This edition of the Inferno is edited in XML (Extensible Markup Language), which allows users to perform searches for a wide range of entities across the entire poem. Above the Italian and English texts users will see a band listing six categories. Click on any of these terms for a list of the Creatures, Deities, Images, People, Places, and Structures found in each canto. Every canto also contains visual material, keyed to specific passages. Every canto also contains visual material, keyed to specific passages. Outline of Inferno. Dante's Inferno - Main Page. The Camelot Project. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (BBC Documentary) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Preface to First Edition The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A.X., preserved in the British Museum.
The MS. is of the end of the fourteenth century, but it is possible that the composition of the poem is somewhat earlier; the subject-matter is certainly of very old date. There has been a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship, but the view now generally accepted is that it is the work of the same hand as Pearl, another poem of considerable merit contained in the same MS. Our poem, or, to speak more correctly, metrical romance, contains over 2500 lines, and is composed in staves of varying length, ending in five short rhyming lines, technically known as a bob and a wheel,–the lines forming the body of the stave being not rhyming, but alliterative. Preface to Second Edition. Anglo Saxon Riddles. Below are links to texts of the Riddles accompanied by translations. The first stage of this part of the AngoSaxonRiddles provides the Anglo-Saxon texts of all the Riddles in the Exeter book, accompanied by translations, as those appear in Craig Williamson's two important books: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (Chapel Hill: U. of NC Press, 1977) and A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs (Philadelphia: U. of Penn.
Press; 1982). The numbering of the Riddles is, of course, Williamson's. His consolidation of KD 1-3 into Riddle 1, KD 75-76 into Riddle 73, and KD 79-80 into Riddle 76 produces a total of 91 riddles instead of Krapp-Dobbie 95. In the course of the next year, we will be working on providing other translations, commentary and even perhaps video and sound of performances. The process of including Williamson's translations has only just begun here on March 17, 2001, but I hope soon to remove this note.