Sound
Aural and musicological investigations of Dante and his world

Musical Instruments in Dante’s Commedia:
A Visual and Acoustic Journey
Francesco Ciabattoni (2019)
A critical guide, with illustrations, to medieval musical instruments mentioned in Dante's Commedia.

Inferno Readings
Francesco Bausi (2016)
Audio recordings of the Italian text of the Inferno.

Sestina Readings
The Digital Dante Sestina Project (2014)
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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