Audio sample 4mins 1sec full duration 11h 50mins translated by a. Dante alighieri for android free download and software. The divine comedy by dante alighieri free audiobook. The divine comedy francesco bausi 2017 below you will find audio recordings of the italian text of dantes commedia, read by francesco bausi, a professor at the universita della calabria and a native florentine.
His divine comedy, originally called comeda modern italian. Project gutenberg offers 61,703 free ebooks to download. Having escaped the inferno, dante and his guide, the classical roman poet virgil, ascend out of the underworld to the mountain of purgatory on an island on the far side of the world. A single listening will reveal dante s visual imagination and uncanny power to make the spiritual visible. We begin with the first 11 cantos of inferno and will continue to add more until the culmination of the project. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his death in 21, is widely considered the central epic poem of italian literature, the last great work of literature of the middle ages and the first great work of the renaissance. The divine comedy francesco bausi 2017 below you will find audio recordings of the italian text of dante s commedia, read by francesco bausi, a professor at the universita della calabria and a native florentine. Sep 12, 2010 the divine comedy by dante alighieri is an epic poem written between 8 and his death in 21. An analysis of dantes autobiography, the vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the comedy s composition. Dante s reputation as the outstanding figure of italian letters rests mainly on the divine comedy, a long vernacular poem in 100 cantos more than 14,000 lines composed during his exile.
Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his. Books by dante alighieri sorted by popularity project gutenberg. But certainly dante gave us much more than the bible can tell us about heaven. Below you will find audio recordings of the italian text of dantes commedia, read by francesco bausi.
The divine comedy by dante alighieri digital dante edition with commento baroliniano mmxivmmxx columbia university. This is the only unabridged reading in italian of the divine comedy available today. One of the greatest works of not only italian literature but the world literature, the divine comedy is an epic poetry written by italian poet dante alighieri. Librivox recording of the divine comedy, by dante alighieri. The divine comedy is not a comedy at all, the title commedia refers to the fact that the journey starts from hell and ends with dantes visit to heaven and meeting with god and understanding of the mystery of reincarnation. Both the reading and the recording are of exceptionally high quality. Sep 01, 2005 an index of the divine comedy by dante by dante alighieri. The inferno from the divine comedy audiobook by dante. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his death in 21, is widely considered the central epic poem of. The divine comedy by dante alighieri on free audio book download. Download the divine comedy by dante alighieri audiobook. It is usually held to be one of the worlds great works of literature.
It consists of 100 cantos, and after an introductory canto they are divided into three sections. Hear dantes inferno read aloud by influential poet. The divine comedy full audiobook by dante alighieri part 1. English translations of dantes divine comedy wikipedia. An index of the divine comedy by dante dante alighieri 7802 downloads. This is a multi volume index file the index has links to all volumes. Artists illustrate dantes divine comedy through the ages. Divina commedia unabridged 15 hour reading in italian cd mp3. Robert hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of dante, and jean hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a beautifully accurate and clear verse translation of the first volume of dantes epic poem, the divine comedy. A version of dantes inferno i the divine comedy is available from this italian website along with a reading in the original italian requires realplayer. Follow these instructions if you would like to have your own copy of this index and all the volumes of dante s divine comedy, on your hard disk. The divine comedy by dante aligheri was translated into french and spanish and other european languages well before it was first translated into english.
Check it out thanks to jerry lermas dante page for bringing this up. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. He also made a map of the simpsons if youre interested. The divine comedy by dante alighieri on free audio book. Dante alighieri, charles eliot norton created date. The divine comedy by dante alighieri free pdf ebook. The divine comedy by dante alighieri audiobook download. Purgatorio is the second part of the divine comedy, dante s epic poem describing mans progress from hell to paradise. Dantes divine comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written.
Inferno full unabridged audiobook of dante aligheris. The princeton dante project opened for local use on 18 may 1999. Featuring the original italian text opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and. Divine comedy by dante alighieri free audio book audiobook. Henry wadsworth longfellow, the pennsylvania state university, electronic classics series, jim manis, faculty editor, hazleton, pa 18202 is a portable document file produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his death. Divided into three major sections inferno, purgatorio, and paradiso the narrative traces the journey of dante from darkness and. He gave us a fantastic blinding light show of celestial symmetry complete with song and dance by angels and souls that made it to paradise. Mar 17, 2020 paradiso is dante s crown jewel in the three part divine comedy. The divine comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three canticas italian plural cantiche inferno hell, purgatorio purgatory, and paradiso paradise each consisting of 33 cantos italian plural canti. Commedia and later christened divina by boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the italian language. Though dante started writing on this around 8, it took more than a decade to finish just an year before his death. In fact the first english translation was only completed in 1802, almost 500 years after dante wrote his italian original.
Dante alighieri was born in florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his death in 21, is. A wellbred italian woman explained to me once that italians were horrified when encyclopedia britannica came out with their first version in italian. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio. The divine comedy, inferno, canto i, dante alighieri, italian. Mp3, is an extraordinary reading of dantes entire divine comedy, in italian, by the stage actor claudio carini. Dante gets to meet souls as they experience the different circles of hell.
The divine comedy dante alighieri audiobook and ebook. On the 750th birthday of dante alighiericomposer of the dizzyingly epic medieval poem the divine comedyenglish professor john kleiner pointed to one way of helping undergraduate students understand the italian poets importance. Commedia, later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio, written by dante alighieri between 8 and his death in 21, is widely considered. An index of the divine comedy by dante by dante alighieri. Read dante s divine comedy in the original italian and in english by dante available from rakuten kobo.
Dante s divine comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written. Dantes divine comedy in the original italian and in english. Doing so will allow this index to be used with all the m. To download this free audio book from librivox, click on either of the. The divine comedy by dante alighieri free at loyal books. Kline poetry in translation narrated by jack wynters wyntersea productions read andor. Digital dante offers original research and ideas on dante.
Divina commedia unabridged 15 hour reading in italian cd. Dante alighieris poetic masterpiece, the divine comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of hell, up the arduous slopes of purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of paradisethe sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. Here, in one fifteenhourlong cd mp3, is an extraordinary reading of dante s entire divine comedy, in italian, by the stage actor claudio carini. When apollo and artemis, the sun and moon, the children of latona, one in aries the ram, the other in libra the scales, make the horizon their circle, and the zenith is the point from which both hang, till one rises, the other sets, removing themselves from that zones scales, both changing hemispheres, so long as that did beatrice keep. You can hear the complete reading on spotify download the. The text of dante s poem is always at the center of the users attention, and he or she is able to consult, within the confines of the pdp.