Basic Dante Bibliography
Medieval Backgrounds
Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Chenu, M.-D. Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Curtius, Ernst Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Trans. William R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Gardiner, Eileeen, ed. Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante. New York: Italica Press, 1989.
Le Goff, Jacques. The Birth of Purgatory. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.
Lynch, Kathryn L. The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
McDannell, Colleen, and Bernhard Lang. Heaven: A History. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Southern, R. W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1970.
Studies on Dante
Ascoli, Albert. Dante and the Making of a Modern Author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Auerbach, Erich. Dante, Poet of the Secular World. Trans. Ralph Manheim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Barański, Zygmunt G. “Dante’s Signs: An Introduction to Medieval Semiotics and Dante.” In Dante and the Middle Ages: Literary and Historical Essays. Eds. John C. Barnes and Cormac O’Cuilleanain. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995.
Barbi, Michele. Life of Dante. Trans. Paul Ruggiers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954.
Barnes, John C., and Jennifer Petrie. Dante and the Human: Eight Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006.
Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Barolini, Teodolinda. The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Barolini, Teodolinda, and H. Wayne Storey, eds. Dante for the New Millenium. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.
Bemrose, Stephen. A New Life of Dante. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000.
Boswell, John E. "Dante and the Sodomites." Dante Studies 112 (1994): 63-76.
Botterill, Steven. Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the “Commedia.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Brownlee, Kevin. “Phaethon’s Fall and Dante’s Ascent.” Dante Studies 102 (1984): 135-144.
Cornish, Alison. Reading Dante’s Stars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Dronke, Peter. Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Durling, Robert M. and Ronald L. Martinez. Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante’s ‘Rime Petrose.’ Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Ferrante, Joan. The Political Vision of the “Divine Comedy.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Foster, Kenelm. The Two Dantes and Other Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Freccero, John. Dante and the Poetics of Conversion. Ed. Rachel Jacoff. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Gilson, Étienne. Dante and Philosophy. Trans. David Moore. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. The Body of Beatrice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Hawkins, Peter S. Dante’s Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Hawkins, Peter S. “Divide and Conquer: Augustine in the Divine Comedy.” Publications of the Modern Language Association 106 (1991): 471-82.
Hollander, Robert. Allegory in Dante’s “Commedia.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
Hollander, Robert. “Dante Theologus-Poeta.” Dante Studies 94 (1976): 91-136.
Hollander, Robert. The Epistola to Cangrande. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Holmes, Olivia. Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Jacoff, Rachel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Kay, Richard. “The Sin(s) of Brunetto Latini.” Dante Studies 112 (1994): 19-31.
Keen, Catherine. Dante and the City. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2003.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Dante and the Bible: Biblical Citation in the Divine Comedy.” In Dante: Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. Amilcare Iannucci. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Lewis, C. S. “Dante’s Similes.” In Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Limentani, Uberto. Dante’s Comedy: Introductory Readings of Selected Cantos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the “Divine Comedy.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante’s Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Moevs, Christian. The Metaphysics of Dante’s “Comedy.” New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Montemaggi, Vittorio. Reading Dante's Commedia as Theology: Divinity Realized in Human Encounter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Montemaggi, Vittorio, and Matthew Treherne. Dante's 'Commedia': Theology as Poetry. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2010.
Morgan, Alison. Dante and the Medieval Other World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Musa, Mark, ed. Essays on Dante. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964.
Nardi, Bruno. Saggi di filosofia dantesca. Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1967.
Pelikan, Jaroslav. Eternal Feminines: Three Theological Allegories in Dante’s Paradiso. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Pertile, Lino. "Does the Stilnovo Go to Heaven?" In Dante for the New Millennium. Eds. Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.
Psaki, Regina. “The Sexual Body in Dante’s Celestial Paradise.” In Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays. Eds. Jan S. Emerson and Hugh Feiss, OSB. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
Schnapp, Jeffrey T. The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante’s ‘”Paradise.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Scott, John A. Understanding Dante. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
Shoaf, R. A. Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word. Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1983.
Singleton, Charles S. Dante Studies 2: Journey to Beatrice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
Singleton, Charles S. “In Exitu Israel de Aegypto.” Seventy-Seventh Annual Report of the Dante Society of America (1960): 1-24.
Steinberg, Justin Dante and the Limits of the Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Webb, Heather. Dante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Webb, Heather. "Power Differentials, Unreliable Models, and Homoerotic Desire in the Commedia." Italian Studies 68.1 (2013): 17-35.
Wetherbee, Winthrop. The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2008.
Williams, Charles. The Figure of Beatrice. London: Faber, 1943.
Medieval Backgrounds
Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Chenu, M.-D. Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Curtius, Ernst Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Trans. William R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Gardiner, Eileeen, ed. Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante. New York: Italica Press, 1989.
Le Goff, Jacques. The Birth of Purgatory. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.
Lynch, Kathryn L. The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
McDannell, Colleen, and Bernhard Lang. Heaven: A History. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Southern, R. W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1970.
Studies on Dante
Ascoli, Albert. Dante and the Making of a Modern Author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Auerbach, Erich. Dante, Poet of the Secular World. Trans. Ralph Manheim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Barański, Zygmunt G. “Dante’s Signs: An Introduction to Medieval Semiotics and Dante.” In Dante and the Middle Ages: Literary and Historical Essays. Eds. John C. Barnes and Cormac O’Cuilleanain. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995.
Barbi, Michele. Life of Dante. Trans. Paul Ruggiers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954.
Barnes, John C., and Jennifer Petrie. Dante and the Human: Eight Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006.
Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Barolini, Teodolinda. The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Barolini, Teodolinda, and H. Wayne Storey, eds. Dante for the New Millenium. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.
Bemrose, Stephen. A New Life of Dante. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000.
Boswell, John E. "Dante and the Sodomites." Dante Studies 112 (1994): 63-76.
Botterill, Steven. Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the “Commedia.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Brownlee, Kevin. “Phaethon’s Fall and Dante’s Ascent.” Dante Studies 102 (1984): 135-144.
Cornish, Alison. Reading Dante’s Stars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Dronke, Peter. Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Durling, Robert M. and Ronald L. Martinez. Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante’s ‘Rime Petrose.’ Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Ferrante, Joan. The Political Vision of the “Divine Comedy.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Foster, Kenelm. The Two Dantes and Other Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Freccero, John. Dante and the Poetics of Conversion. Ed. Rachel Jacoff. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Gilson, Étienne. Dante and Philosophy. Trans. David Moore. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. The Body of Beatrice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Hawkins, Peter S. Dante’s Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Hawkins, Peter S. “Divide and Conquer: Augustine in the Divine Comedy.” Publications of the Modern Language Association 106 (1991): 471-82.
Hollander, Robert. Allegory in Dante’s “Commedia.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
Hollander, Robert. “Dante Theologus-Poeta.” Dante Studies 94 (1976): 91-136.
Hollander, Robert. The Epistola to Cangrande. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Holmes, Olivia. Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Jacoff, Rachel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Kay, Richard. “The Sin(s) of Brunetto Latini.” Dante Studies 112 (1994): 19-31.
Keen, Catherine. Dante and the City. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2003.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Dante and the Bible: Biblical Citation in the Divine Comedy.” In Dante: Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. Amilcare Iannucci. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Lewis, C. S. “Dante’s Similes.” In Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Limentani, Uberto. Dante’s Comedy: Introductory Readings of Selected Cantos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the “Divine Comedy.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante’s Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Moevs, Christian. The Metaphysics of Dante’s “Comedy.” New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Montemaggi, Vittorio. Reading Dante's Commedia as Theology: Divinity Realized in Human Encounter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Montemaggi, Vittorio, and Matthew Treherne. Dante's 'Commedia': Theology as Poetry. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2010.
Morgan, Alison. Dante and the Medieval Other World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Musa, Mark, ed. Essays on Dante. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964.
Nardi, Bruno. Saggi di filosofia dantesca. Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1967.
Pelikan, Jaroslav. Eternal Feminines: Three Theological Allegories in Dante’s Paradiso. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Pertile, Lino. "Does the Stilnovo Go to Heaven?" In Dante for the New Millennium. Eds. Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.
Psaki, Regina. “The Sexual Body in Dante’s Celestial Paradise.” In Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays. Eds. Jan S. Emerson and Hugh Feiss, OSB. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
Schnapp, Jeffrey T. The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante’s ‘”Paradise.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Scott, John A. Understanding Dante. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
Shoaf, R. A. Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word. Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1983.
Singleton, Charles S. Dante Studies 2: Journey to Beatrice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
Singleton, Charles S. “In Exitu Israel de Aegypto.” Seventy-Seventh Annual Report of the Dante Society of America (1960): 1-24.
Steinberg, Justin Dante and the Limits of the Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Webb, Heather. Dante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Webb, Heather. "Power Differentials, Unreliable Models, and Homoerotic Desire in the Commedia." Italian Studies 68.1 (2013): 17-35.
Wetherbee, Winthrop. The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2008.
Williams, Charles. The Figure of Beatrice. London: Faber, 1943.