Sound

Aural and musicological investigations of Dante and his world

Musical Instruments in Dante’s Commedia:
A Visual and Acoustic Journey

A critical guide, with illustrations, to medieval musical instruments mentioned in Dante's Commedia.

Inferno Readings

Audio recordings of the Italian text of the Inferno.

Sestina Readings

Columbia students perform 12 sestinas as a chorus of intertwined voices. Several sestinas are accompanied by color-coded visualizations highlighting the looping mechanics of the poetic form.

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