The starting point for research, with links to the catalogues of UVA and W&L and other Virginia libraries, as well as VMI, and a large selection of databases, primary and secondary texts.
A collection of links to websites with guidelines for citing material from the World Wide Web, CD-ROMs and other electronic sources. The emphasis is on MLA format, but there is information for APA, Chicago, and Turabian, as well.
Voice of the Shuttle: American Literature
Literary Resources -- American (by Jack Lynch, Upenn)
Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web
Provided by Jim Zwick, the largest collection of online Twain resources.
A sub-page of Jim Zwick's Twain web site, including a text of the 1916 edition, original book reviews, and an essay by Zwick, "Who Wrote The Mysterious Stranger?"
Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College, N.Y.
Reviews from Mark Twain Forum of current criticism, biography, reference books, and other works having to do with Twain.
Mark Twain Forum "Files of Interest to Twainians"
Archives of messages from the scholarly electronic list, TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA
Voice of the Shuttle: Italian Literature
ILTweb: Digital Dante: Dante-related Resources on the Net
A website provided by Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies (ILTweb), it "integrates . . . multimedia, as well as hyperlinked text commentary and other materials, into the reading of the Commedia in an innovative way -- a way not previously possible in non-digital media. The Digital Dante Project is essentially a twenty-first-century illumination -- one that intends to take advantage of the existing technical possibilities of our contemporary culture to create a viewpoint -- a twenty-first-century dantisti viewpoint--of contemporary and historical culture, much like Dante's original work was (in addition to allegory) a thirteenth-century viewpoint of then contemporary and historical culture." For a different version of this site, click here
Otfried Lieberknecht's Dante Alighieri: A Guide to Online Resources.
Sponsored by the ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
Otfried Lieberknecht's Homepage for Dante Studies
If your browser does not support frames and JavaScript or you prefer not to use them, click here.
An online Service for Dante scholars provided by the Dante Society Of America, this website includes a link to the American Dante Bibliography, an annotated bibliography of Dante studies from 1953-1995. Includes the Princeton Dante Project (see below)
An elaborate, innovative site for studying the works of Dante. It includes the authoritative Petrocchi text of The Divine Comedy; the verse translation of Inferno by Robert Hollander, which can be viewed in parallel columns with the Italian or by itself; audio of both the Italian and English, along with images and other multimedia features; lectures on Dante's life and the historical, cultural and literary background of the Comedy; bibliography; commentary and notes. Finally, the text and translation allow you to click on direct links to the line by line commentaries in the Dartmouth Dante Project and to switch easily back and forth between commentaries in all languages and commentaries only in English. For a direct link to the Dartmouth Dante Project, see below. The Princeton Dante Project requires registration and password entry, but registration is free and quick.
Contains over 50 commentaries on The Divine Comedy, beginning with that of Dante's son, Jacopo Alighieri, and including the commentaries by Boccaccio, Longfellow and Singleton. You can search by book (cantica), canto, and line numbers and limit the responses according to the language of the commentaries (e.g., English, Latin, Italian). Note that, although it is not possible to search for a range of line numbers (e.g., 31-54 for all three beasts), if you give the first line of a passage, the database will usually return commentary on the entire passage.
Annotated bibliographies of Dante scholarship from 1953-2000. You can browse through
each year or and search by keywords. There are also links to un-annotated bibliographies of
Dante scholarship in the British Isles from 1980-2000 and in Italy from 1988-1990.
Danteworlds, created under the auspices of Guy Raffa at the University of Texas, Austin, is
"an integrated multimedia journey--combining images, textual commentary, and audio--through
the various regions of hell described in Dante's Inferno. The site is structured
around a visual representation of hell: it shows who and what appear
where. Clicking on a region or circle of hell . . . opens a new page depicting the
principal creatures and people whom the character Dante meets in the region. Click on individual
figures in the circle to view a close-up of the image in a pop-up window. Click on their names in
the list of 'icons' for pertinent information. Also available for each infernal circle are links to
'allusions,' 'study questions,' recordings of selected 'Italian verses,' and a 'gallery' of artistic
images--all aimed at a better understanding of the region under consideration."
A Catholic translation of the Vulgate Bible into English, often closer to the Latin text that
medieval authors would have known than any more modern translations, Catholic or Protestant.
If a student can't read the medieval Latin Vulgate itself, this is the translation to use. Also
available at Intratext Library,
which contains a built-in concordance for many of the words.
An excellent first stop for research into Catholic doctrine and the history of the medieval
Catholic Church.
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