RESOURCES:

• Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
• Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
• Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

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SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Dante Alighieri.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	dante alighieri Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."	Provides a number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collections I & II	dante alighieri JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).	Provides a large number of revelant documents.
Encyclopedia Britannica	dante Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article and a number of related Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	dante alighieri Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text."	Provides a number of relevant items.
Literature Resource Center	dante Perform the default (author) search and click on the link to Dante (1265-1321). After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles.	Provides a number of quality documents.
MagillOnLiterature	dante alighieri Perform the default search.	Provides a small number of relevant items.
Research Library Complete	dante alighieri Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals." For more precise results, choose a subject area and click on the links under "Suggested Topics."	Provides a large number of quality items.
Scribner's	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the "D"  and then on each of the links: DANTE ALIGHIERI DANTE ALIGHIERI: See "Renaissance Pastoral Poetry"	Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance	dante alighieri Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a small number of quality items.
Story Finder	dante alighieri Perform the "Basic Search."	Provides a number of full-text items by the author.
Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the "A" and then on the Alighieri, Dante link.	Provides a number of quality items.

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SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

• The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
  
• Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
  
• eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
  
• To find works written by Dante Alighieri, do a catalog search for Dante and select the Author option. To find works written about the author, select the Search everything option. The following are selected titles from among the Troy libraries’ holdings. Search the library catalog for more results.
  
  

  The Dante Encyclopedia
  Reference PQ4333D36 2000
  Location: Troy, Al

  Dante, the Divine comedy
  PQ4390K48 1987
  Location: Troy, AL

  Lectura Dantis: Inferno
  PQ4443L38 1998
  Location: Troy, AL

  Divine Comedies for the new millennium : recent Dante translations in America and the Netherlands
  Location: eBook

  Joyce, Dante, and the poetics of literary relations : language and meaning in Finnegans Wake
  Location: eBook

  The design in the wax : the structure of the Divine Comedy and its meaning
  Location: eBook

  Dante's political purgatory
  Location: eBook

  Dante's Christian astrology
  Location: eBook

  The Song of Troilus : lyric authority in the medieval book
  Location: eBook

  The undivine comedy : detheologizing Dante
  Location: eBook

  Chaucer's Dante : allegory and epic theater in The Canterbury Tales
  Location: eBook

  Time and the crystal : studies in Dante's Rime Petrose
  Location: eBook

  The Burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton
  Location: eBook

  Expositiones Et Glose Super Comediam Dantis; : Or, Commentary On, Dante's Inferno
  Location: eBook

  The Divine Comedy. Paradiso
  Location: eBook

  The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio
  Location: eBook

  The Divine Comedy. Inferno
  Location: eBook

  The Divine Comedy. Vol. 1, Hell [The Inferno]
  Location: eBook

  The Divine Comedy. Vol. 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio]
  Location: eBook

  The Divine Comedy. Vol. 3, Paradise [Paradiso]
  Location: eBook

  Hermes' lyre : Italian poetic self-commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella
  PQ4066 .R68X 2002
  Location: Troy, AL

  Dante and the Orient
  PQ4432 .O74 S35 2002
  Location: Troy, AL

  Chaucer's Italian tradition
  PR1912 .A3 G56 2002
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Montgomery

  Dante
  PQ4335 .L49 2001
  Location: Troy, AL; Montgomery

  Human vices and human worth in Dante's Comedy
  PQ4414 .B69 2000
  Location: Troy, AL

  Dante and the Victorians
  PR595 .D36 M55 1998
  Location: Troy, AL

  To hell and back with Dante : a modern reader's guide to The Divne Comedy
  PQ 4390 .G3 1996
  Location: Dothan; Phenix City

  The portable Dante
  PQ4315 .A3 M87 1995
  Location: Phenix City

  Dante's Christian astrology
  PQ4401.K39 1994
  Location: Montgomery

  Perception and passion in Dante's Comedy
  PQ4412 .B63 1993
  Location: Montgomery

  The divine comedy : tracing God's art
  PQ4390.C596 1989
  Location: Dothan

  T.S. Eliot and Dante
  PS3509.L43 Z72 1989
  Location: Troy, AL
  
  The burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton
  PN1333.H45 M3 1987
  Location: Dothan

  The pilgrim and the book : a study of Dante, Langland, and Chaucer
  PN682.P5 H64 1987
  Location: Dothan

  Dante's fearful art of justice
  PQ4419.R47 C3 1984
  Location: Dothan

  Pilgrim in love : an introduction to Dante and his spirituality
  PQ4416.C58 1984
  Location: Dothan

  The political vision of the Divine comedy
  PQ4422.F48 1984
  Location: Dothan

  The figure of Dante : an essay on the Vita nuova
  PQ4310.V4 M3
  Location: Troy, AL

  The World of Dante : essays on Dante and his times
  PQ4332.W6
  Location: Troy, AL

  Dante, poet of the desert : history and allegory in the Divine comedy
  PQ4390.M54
  Location: Troy, AL

  Trope and allegory : themes common to Dante and Shakespeare
  PR2976 .F42
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Phenix City

  Dark wood to white rose : a study of meanings in Dante's Divine comedy
  PQ4406.L84
  Location: Troy, AL

  Woman, earthly and divine, in the Comedy of Dante
  PQ4409.W8 S5
  Location: Troy, AL

  Companion to the Divine comedy
  PQ4464.G7 1975
  Location: Troy, AL; Montgomery

  Advent at the gates: Dante's Comedy
  PQ4390.M86
  Location: Troy, AL

  The invention of Dante's Commedia
  PQ4394.D4 1974
  Location: Troy, AL

  Dante's epic journeys
  PQ4406.T5 1974
  Location: Dothan

  Parallels in Dante and Milton
  PQ4391 .M5 B3 1974
  Location: Phenix City

  Literary criticism of Dante Alighieri
  PQ4315.5 .H3 1973
  Location: Phenix City

  La divina commedia
  PQ4302.F72
  Location: Troy, AL

  The treatment of nature in Dante's Divina commedia
  PQ4432.N3 K8 1971
  Location: Troy, AL

  Prisoners of hope; an exposition of Dante's Purgatorio
  PQ4447.C4 1971
  Location: Troy, AL

  Exiles of eternity; an exposition of Dante's Inferno
  PQ4443.C3 1971
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  In patria; an exposition of Dante's Paradiso
  PQ4451.C3 1971
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  Dante studies and researches
  PQ4390.T8 1971
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  Three philosophical poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe
  PN1077 .S3 1970
  Location: Phenix City

  Perspectives on the Divine comedy
  PQ4390.B575 1970
  Location: Dothan

  The dread Inferno; notes for beginners in the study of Dante
  PQ4443.W8 1969
  Location: Dothan

  Illuminated manuscripts of the Divine comedy
  PQ4366.B7
  Location: Troy, AL

  New light on the youth of Dante; the course of Dante's life prior to 1290 traced in the Inferno, cantos 3-13
  PQ4349.L4 1969
  Location: Dothan

  A walk in other worlds with Dante
  PQ4390.B22 1969
  Location: Dothan

  Dante & his time
  PQ4337.F5 1969
  Location: Troy, AL

  Allegory in Dante's Commedia
  PQ4406.H6 1969
  Location: Dothan

  Medieval cultural tradition in Dante's comedy
  PQ4390.M53 1968
  Location: Dothan

  Dante; essays in commemoration
  PQ4363.B21 D3 1968
  Location: Troy, AL

  Dante and the mystics; a study of the mystical aspect of the Divina commedia and its relations with some of its mediaeval sources
  PQ4416.G3 1968B
  Location: Troy, AL

  American critical essays on the Divine comedy
  PQ4385.U5 C55
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  From hell to paradise; Dante and his Comedy
  PQ4390.L2513
  Location: Troy, AL

  Dante and Milton: the Commedia and Paradise lost
  PR3562.S3
  Location: Troy, AL

  Dante; a collection of critical essays
  PQ4332.F7 1965
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  A Homage to Dante: 1265-1965
  PQ4363.B65 H6X
  Location: Troy, AL
  
  Discussions of the Divine comedy
  PQ4341.B76
  Location: Troy, AL

  
  

 

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SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

• Dante Alighieri
  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante
  
  
• The World of Dante
  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante
  
  
• The Classic Text: Dante Alighieri
  http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg064.htm
  
  
• Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word
  http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rashoaf/dccw.html
  
  
• The Structure of Dante’s Inferno
  http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/uc/s.cassavant/DanteOut.html
  
  
• Dante’s “Clickable” Inferno
  http://www.carthage.edu/dept/english/dante/Title.html
  
  
• Dante Alighieri
  http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/dante_alighieri.html
  
  
• Digital Dante
  http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu
  
  
• Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dante.htm
  
  
• Dante’s Inferno
  http://www.arches.uga.edu/~redman
  
  
• Renaissance Dante in Print
  http://www3.nd.edu/~italnet/Dante
  
  
• Dante on the Web
  http://www.greatdante.net
  
  
• World Wide School Library (E-texts): The Divine Comedy: Inferno
  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheDivineComedy1-Inferno/toc.html
  
  
• World Wide School Library (E-texts): The Divine Comedy: Paradise
  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheDivineComedy3-Paradise/toc.html
  
  
• World Wide School Library (E-texts): The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheDivineComedy2-Purgatory/toc.html
  
  
• World Wide School Library (E-texts): La Divina Commedia: Paradiso
  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lang/italian/LaDivinaCommedia-Paradiso/toc.html