Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography by Joseph Luzzi

On #DanteDay (Dantedì), check out Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography by Joseph Luzzi! This work narrates the remarkable reception of Dante’s masterpiece, one of the most consequential religious books ever written.

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🇺🇸On #DanteDay, we’re sharing an ep. of our podcast in Italian. We recorded this while staying near Via Dante. Our team discusses how #CPU architectures have reached a point of incremental improvements, limits of specialized accelerators, & why general-purpose parallelism is an important shift. #HPC

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10/10 Thanks for joining us for this #DanteDay exploration of some of the great variety of books that comprise Rare Book School's Daniel D. Chabris Dante Collection, donated to RBS in 2018.

Which one is your favorite?

A square graphic with a black-to-red background, on which are two images of pages from Dante’s Divine Comedy, with illustrations in a modern style. On the left, the beginning of Canto VI is illustrated with a print of a man in black robes and a hat floating in the sky alongside a woman in trailing clothes and bare feet. On the right, text reading “Charon” accompanies a black-and-white sketch of a wild-looking man’s face in close-up. Below it, III.112 is illustrated with falling oak leaves, and V.46 by flying cranes. Full bibliographical details: Two 20th-century illustrated English editions of the Commedia. Left: Dante and Beatrice from Paradiso Canto VI. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Prose Translation by Charles Eliot Norton with Illustrations from Designs by Botticelli. New York: Bruce Rogers & The Press of A. Colish, 1955. Limited Edition. Right: Illustrations from Inferno III and V. Reproductions of pen and wash drawings by Barry Moser. Dante Alighieri, Inferno: First Book of the Divine Comedy. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum and illustrated by Barry Moser. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980.

#DanteDay with RBS: Two 20th-c illustrated English eds of the Commedia.

L: Dante & Beatrice, Paradiso Canto VI. Prose Translation by Charles Eliot Norton with Illustrations from Designs by Botticelli (1955).

R: Inferno III & V. Reproductions of pen & wash drawings by Barry Moser. (1980).

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A square graphic with photos of three 17th-century title pages to Dante’s Divine Comedy. The pages have decorative printed borders.

#DanteDay with RBS's Chabris Collection: A selection of title pages from three Italian 17th-century printed editions of Dante’s Commedia.

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Page from Dante’s Inferno showing a printed map of hell, depicted as a plan view of concentric rings, from the center of which a vertically-oriented wedge extends upwards on the page with various annotations along it.

#DanteDay with RBS's Chabris Collection: Engraved map titled “Profile, Plan, and Measurements of Hell according to the description of Antonio Manetti” from La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. 3 volumes. Padova: Giuseppe Comino and Giovanni Antonio Volpi, 1726.

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Photos of two decorative title pages for books printed in the Arts and Crafts movement style. The page on the left reads “The Vision of Dante Alighieri or Hell Purgatory and Paradise, Translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary A.M., London & Toronto, Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. & in New York by E.P. Dutton & Co.” The title page on the right reads “The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, MCMXXII Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ld., Aldine House, London W.C.”.

#DanteDay with RBS's Chabris Collection: Title pages from mass market editions of Dante published by J.M. Dent, inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Square graphic with a collage of book pages with profile bust portraits in of Dante Alighieri, who is wearing either a droopy medieval-style cap or a laurel-leaf wreath around his head.

#DanteDay with RBS's Chabris Collection: A selection of Dante portraits in various printed editions dating from the 18th century to the present.

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A page of a wood engraving of Dante in the Dark Wood by Gustave Doré, against a dark background. The print shows a man looking over his shoulder surrounded by large shadowy trees.

Enjoy #DanteDay with selections from RBS's Chabris Collection: Wood engraving of Dante in the dark wood by Gustave Doré. The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri: Part 1. Translated by Henry Francis Cary and illustrated by Gustave Doré. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1903.

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A square graphic with a white background shows five books with fancy decorative cloth bindings in red and tan tones stacked in a pile with the largest on the bottom and smallest on top. In the upper left of the image is a straight-on photo of the front cover of a book with a tan binding tooled in gold, with text reading “DANTE” in the middle of the cover. To the right, red and black text reads “Highlights from the Daniel D. Chabris Dante Collection at Rare Book School”. Lower image details: Various bindings and formats of Dante’s Commedia from the Daniel D. Chabris Dante Collection donated to RBS in 2018. Upper left: Dante’s Commedia published in Leipzig by Bernard Tauchnitz in three volumes. Bound in publisher's parchment-covered binding and stamped in gold.

Celebrate #DanteDay with highlights from RBS's Daniel D. Chabris Dante Collection! Join us for a book-historical journey through Dante’s Divine Comedy, with a peek into the bindings, title pages, portraits, and more showcasing how the medieval poem has inspired generations of readers and artists.

In "HELL," Alasdair Gray Creates a Celtic, Wind-lashed Translation of Dante's "Inferno" - Words Without Borders Since the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri finished his Divina Commedia, in 1320, more than one hundred different translations of his work have been published in English, over a dozen in this decade al...

“By fusing a dialect-laden verse with knowledge and respect for Dante’s original, Gray has, almost inadvertently, built a bridge across borders and nations.”

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25 March is #DanteDay. In 2021 @uofglasgow.bsky.social & @agrayarchive.bsky.social held a symposium & reading commemorating 700 years since the death of Dante, & marking Alasdair Gray’s translation of The Divine Comedy – his last major work before his death in 2019
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