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Visualizing Dante: Alfonso D’Aragona’s Manuscript Edition of the Divina Commedia
Marco Lettieri (2025)
An exploration of select miniatures of the Inferno and Purgatorio by the 15th-century artist Priamo della Quercia.
Diagramming Dante
Louis Moffa (2020)
A commentary on astronomical periphrases in the Divina Commedia, with astronomical diagrams.
A 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript and the Artistic Tradition of Dante’s Inferno
George Cochrane (2018)
A contemporary artist hand-letters and illustrates the Inferno, reviving the medieval manuscript tradition in the 21st century.
An Architect’s Vision of Dante’s Hell
Paulo de Tarso Coutinho (2018)
A professional architect based in Brazil visually represents the spatial issues inherent in Dante's conception of hell in this series of four videos.
William Blake and The Divine Comedy
Silvia De Santis (2017)
The 19th-century English poet, painter, and printmaker visually interprets Dante's Commedia in the Romantic Age.
Illustrations from Early Printed Editions of the Commedia
Jane Siegel (2014)
Drawn from the collections of Columbia's own Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Birk Illustrations
Kristina Olson (2017)
Contemporary artist Sandow Birk interprets and illustrates the Commedia with scenes from 21st century urban American life.
Dante’s Tre Giri of Paradiso 33
Arielle Saiber with Aba Mbirika (2017)
An examination of Dante’s description of the shape, motion, size, color, and configuration of the three giri (“rounds”) of the Trinity in Paradiso 33.115-20, in order to envision what the Pilgrim “saw” when looking at this great Mystery.
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