Texts by Dante and His Contemporaries

Medieval Literature

The Online Medieval and Classical Library Electronic Texts

Italian Literature

Dante

The Divine Comedy in Italian
The Inferno Cantos 1 and 2 in Italian, with photos of manuscripts and Renaissance Woodcuts
The Divine Comedy English translations by Allen Mandelbaum and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; from ILTWeb
The Inferno Selections, with Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes by Durling and Martinez

Other Italian Authors

Rime antiche, a photographic display of a 13th century Italian manuscript; from the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence (text starts on page 9).

"Al cor gentil" by Guido Guinizelli; in Italian

Other European Texts

The Charrette Project Texts of Chretien de Troyes' medieval Lancelot romance, which Paolo and Francesca are reading in Canto V. Return to Dante Resources no tables tables