Dante's Inferno

Further Reading

Editions of the Commedia with English translation:

Dante, Robin Kirkpatrick (Editor, Translator), Dante: Inferno (Penguin Classics, Paperback, 2006); Purgatorio (Penguin Classics, 2007); Paradiso (Penguin Classics, 2007)

Robert Durling and Ronald L. Martinez (trans.), Inferno (Oxford University Press, 1996); Purgatorio (Oxford University Press, 2003); the Paradiso volume in this series is yet to appear

Robert and Jean Hollander (trans.), Inferno (Random House, 2000); Purgatorio (Random House, 2003); Paradiso (Random House, 2007)

M. Musa, The Divine Comedy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984-86; translation only)

J. Sinclair, The ‘Divine Comedy’ of Dante Alighieri, 3rd edn, 3 vols (London: Oxford University Press, 1971; facing translation)

C. S. Singleton, The Divine Comedy, 6 vols (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970-75; facing translation)


Secondary literature:

S. Bemrose, A New Life of Dante (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2000)

P. Boyde, Dante Philomythes and Philosopher: Man in the Cosmos (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)

Patrick Boyde, Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy (Cambridge, 2000)

P. Boyde, Perception and Passion in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

W. Fowlie, A Reading of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981)

Joan M. Ferrante, The Political Vision of the ‘Divine Comedy’ (Princeton University Press, 1984)