Welcome to Danteworlds: A multimedia journey–combining textual commentary, artistic images, and audio recordings–through the three realms (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) of Dante’s Divine Comedy. This site contains, in addition to an abridged version of the original commentary in The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader’s Guide to the Divine Comedy and Danteworlds: A Reader’s Guide to the Inferno, Italian recordings of selected verses and a vast gallery of images depicting characters and scenes from the Divine Comedy. Like the books, the Danteworlds Web site is structured around a geographic representation of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise–the three worlds of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Danteworlds is “an invaluable resource for specialists and novices alike,” writes E. S. Hierl (Harvard University) in Choice Reviews Online, “the sort of multimedia experience that those in the digital humanities strive for” (August, 2010). The subject of an interview on the home page of the University of Texas at Austin, Danteworlds won UT’s Gold Award for Innovative Instructional Technology in 2007 and was selected by EDSITEment! in 2008 as “one of the best online resources for education in the humanities.”

Most literary texts don’t lend themselves to the “integrated multimedia” approach, which often just whisks readers off the page into biographical or literary analysis land and strands them there. But, in the case of “The Divine Comedy,” and perhaps other epic poetry—the Odyssey comes to mind—the approach is a perfect marriage of medium and message, launching the reader right into the allegorical action, heightening rather than dulling appreciation and comprehension. – New Yorker

The online Danteworlds maps out Dante’s physical progress to Hell and beyond, combining classic images by Botticelli with new (and truly terrifying) illustrations by Suloni Robertson. – Los Angeles Times