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by Dante Alighieri
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This guide lists sources for library criticism of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
REFERENCE BOOKS
Epics for Students (Ref PN 56 .E65 E67 1997) 1: 107-134.
Masterplots II (Ref PN 44 .M33 1996) 3: 1727-1731.
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Ref PN 88 .C552) 39: 287-407 (Purgatorio)
  Poetry Criticism (Ref PN 1010 .P499) 21: 48-57, 59, 63, 65-66, 69, 73,77, 80-85, 87-88, 90-93, 95, 97-99, 102, 104-105, 108-111.
BOOKS
Anderson, William. Dante the Maker. London, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. (PQ 4390 .A62)
Auerbach, Eric. Dante: Poet of the Secular World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. (PQ 4390 .A853)
Bergin, Thomas. Perspectives on The Divine Comedy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1967. (PQ 4390 .B575)
  Chiarenza, Marguerite Mills. The Divine Comedy: Tracing God's Art. Boston: Twayne, 1989. (PQ 4390 .C596 1989)
Clements, Robert J., ed. American Critical Essays on The Divine Comedy. New York: New York Universiyt press, 1966. (PQ 4385 .U5 C55
DeGennaro, Angelo. The Reader's Companion to The Divine Comedy. New York: Philosophical Library, 1986. (PQ 4390 .D34 1986)
  Dunbar, Helen Flanders. Symbolism in Medieval Thought and Its' Consummation in The Divine Comedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. (PQ 4406 .D8)
  Freccero, John. Dante: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. (PQ 4332 .F7)
Knight, George Wilson. The Christian Renaissance: with Interpretations of Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe and new Discussion of Oscar Wilde and the Gospel of Thomas. Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1981 (PN 49 .K6)
Quinones, Ricardo J. Dante Alighieri. New York: Twayne; London: Prentice-Hall International, 1995. (PQ 4390 .Q56 1995)
E-BOOKS
Prienst, Harold Martin. The Divine Comedy, Paradiso: Notes (Cliffs Notes). Lincoln, NE: Wiley, 1972. netLibrary
Priest, Harold Martin. The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio: Notes (Cliffs Notes). Lincoln, NE: Wiley, 1971. netLibrary
Zamboni, Vergani Luisa. The Divine Comedy, The Inferno: Notes.... New ed.. Lincoln, NE: Wiley, 1969. netLibrary

PERIODICALS

There are many articles written about The Divine Comedy. Search the library's databases for Dante and/or The Divine Comedy to retrieve citations and full-texts when available. Below are examples of citations on this work.

Benfell, V. Stanley. "Prophetic Madness: The Bible in Inferno XIX. MLN 110 (1995): 145-164. (Full-text in General OneFile]
Bergine, Thomas G. "Dante's Comedy - Letter and Sprit." Virginia Quarterly Review, Autum (1965): 525-541. [Available in microfilm in the library.]
  Horne, Brian. "Can We Inhabit the Moral Universe of Dante's Divine Comedy?" Studies in Christian Ethics (2003): 61 -. [Full-text in EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost Religion and Philosophy]
Serio, John N. "Frost's Fire and Ice and Dante's Inferno." The Explicator 57 (1999): 218+ [Full-text available in General OneFile and MasterFILE Premier.]

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