• An e-text of Dante's Rime can be purchased as a part of Francesco Bonomi's database "Duecento: Italian poetry from the origins to Dante", and is also available as an HTML online version. The text is based on the edition Vita Nuova e Rime, a cura di Guido Davico Bonino (Milano: Mondadori, 1985) and, for the canzones of the Convivio, on Tutte le opere, a cura di Luigi Blasucci (Firenze: Sansoni, 1965). To facilitate the use of this online version, I have provided two lists of Incipits linked to the texts in the database (including the texts of Dante's correspondents, the poems of the Vita Nuova and of the Convivio, and the 'Rime di dubbia attribuzione'):
  • Incipits of Dante's Rime: alphabetical order
  • Incipits of Dante's Rime: numerical order

• E-text supplied, without indication of its printed source, by Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web, in three different versions:
  • HTML-version rime-h.htm (32 Kb)
  • Text only version rime-t.zip (13 Kb) in zipped format
  • Rich-text-file rime-r.zip (15 Kb) in zipped format

• HTML version supplied, without indication of its source, as part of the Opera omnia, by Multiskill S.r.l.

• An electronic version of Dante's Rime, based on the recommended critical edition by Gianfranco Contini, can be searched as part of the electronic version of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (access restricted to registered users)

Vita nuova
Recommended critical edition: Michele Barbi, La Vita Nuova di Dante Alighieri. Edizione critica, Firenze: Bemporad & Figlio, 1932 (= Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Dante, I); to be compared with Gorni's text in Dante Alighieri, Vita nova. A cura di Guglielmo Gorni, Torino: Einaudi, 1996 (= Nuova raccolta di classici italiani annotati, 15)

• Electronic version, based on the recommended critical edition by Michele Barbi (1932), and created by various collaborators under the direction of Mario Ivan Grossi (14 March 1995) for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio:
  • Text only version vita_nuo.zip (38 Kb) for download via ftp from LiberLiber, available also as vita-bem.zip (42 Kb) at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web.
  • Online version converted to HTML by Riccardo Scateni for the Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana of the Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4)

• A different HTML-version, based on Barbi's text as reprinted in Le opere di Dante. Testo critico della Società dantesca italiana, a cura di M. Barbi et al., Firenze: SDI, 1960 (first published 1921), can be browsed and searched as part of the Princeton Dante Project (access restricted to registered users)

• An electronic version of Barbi's text in the original edition can also be searched as part of the electronic version of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (access restricted to registered users)

• Electronic version, dated 14 May 1995, created and revised by Luca Tringali and others for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio. The source is quoted as Dante Alighieri, Tutte le opere, Firenze, Edizioni G. Barbera, 1965, which I have not been able to identify (but compare with Tutte le opere novamente rivedute con un copiosissimo indice del contenuto di esse e con un prospetto della vita e delle opere del poeta, 3a ed. Firenze: Barbera, 1926). Available in various formats:
  • Text only version vitanuo.zip (38 Kb) supplied by LiberLiber, available also as vita-bar.zip (42 Kb) at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web.
  • HTML version vita_n_h.zip (80 Kb) for download via ftp from LiberLiber
  • HTML version for online reading at LiberLiber, adopted also by the ILTweb Digital Dante Project
  • A different HTML version vitanu-h.htm (108 Kb) is available at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web

• HTML version (with introduction) by Giuseppe Bonghi, June 1997, as part of the I.T.I.S. «G. Fauser» - Progetto Dante. Source: La vita nova, a cura di Tommaso Casini, presentazione di Cesare Segre, Firenze: Sansoni, 1962

• HTML version on Benjamin Büttrich's Homepage, based on one of the two aforementioned LiberLiber texts

• HTML version as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

• Another e-text of the Vita nuova (Mondadori) prepared by Francesco Bonomi and revised by Mirko Locatelli has been announced as being "in preparazione" (1 July 1995, 12 December 1999)

• The poems of the Vita Nuova are part of Francesco Bonomi's e-text of Dante's Rime, see above.

Convivio

Recommended critical edition: Dante Alighieri, Convivio, a cura di Franca Brambilla Ageno, Firenze: Le Lettere, 1995 (= Le Opere di Dante Alighieri, Edizione Nazionale a cura della Società Dantesca Italiana, III.1-2). The earlier and often highly problematic tradition of textual criticism established namely by Parodi/Pellegrini (1921) and Busnelli/Vandelli (1934-37, 2nd ed. 1964) is superseded by Ageno and should be consulted only with great caution

• Electronic version (including the paragraph numberings), dated 22 December 1998, prepared by Roberto Gagliardi and revised by Catia Righi for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio. Source: Dante Alighieri, Il Convivio, ridotto a miglior lezione e commentato da G[iovanni] Busnelli e G[iuseppe] Vandelli, con introduzione di M[ichele] Barbi, seconda edizione con appendice di aggiornamento a cura di Enzo Quaglio>, Firenze: Le Monnier, 1964 (= Opere di Dante, Nuova edizione sotto gli auspici della Forndazione Giorgio Cini, IV-V).
  • Text only version convivio.zip (138 Kb)
  • Formatted text conviv_r.zip (151 Kb) in 'rich text format' (rtf) for MS Word

• Electronic version (including the paragraph numberings), dated 28 November 1998, prepared by Roberto Gagliardi and revised by Giuseppe D'Emilio for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio, based on Cesare Vasoli & Domenico De Robertis, Convivio, in: Dante Alighieri, Opere minori, Tomo I, Parte II, Milano/Napoli: Ricciardi, 1988 (= La Letteratura Italiana, Storia e Testi, Volume 5, Tomo I, Parte II), who in turn have adopted, with some (still unsufficient) revisions, the text of Busnelli/Vandelli (2nd ed. 1964).
  • Text only version convivio.zip (137 Kb)
  • Formatted text conviv_r.zip (149 Kb) in 'rich text format' (rtf) for MS Word

• Electronic version (without paragraph numberings) available at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web. The source is not indicated but the text derives from the older textual tradition established by Parodi/Pellegrini (1921) and Busnelli/Vandelli (1934-37, 2nd ed. 1965) and which is now superseded by Ageno (1995)
  • Text only version convi-t.zip (133 Kb)
  • Formatted text convi-r.zip (143 Kb)
  • HTML-version convi-h.htm (400 Kb)

• HTML version (without paragraph numberings) available as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated, but the text derives from the older textual tradition established by Parodi/Pellegrini (1921) and Busnelli/Vandelli (1934-37, 2nd ed. 1965) and which is now superseded by Ageno (1995)

• The canzones of the Convivio are part of Francesco Bonomi's e-text of Dante's Rime, see above.

• An electronic version of the Convivio (without paragraph numberings) based on the recommended critical text by Ageno can be searched as part of the electronic version of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (access restricted to registered users)

Commedia
Recommended critical edition: Dante Alighieri, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata a cura di Giorgio Petrocchi, Milano: Mondadori, 1966-67 (= Le Opere di Dante Alighieri, Edizione Nazionale a cura della Società Dantesca Italiana, VII, 1-4)

• In the public domain, the recommended electronic version of Petrocchi's critical text is the one supplied by William I. Johnston. Johnston has used as his electronic source the '1st edition' of the e-text formerly distributed by LiberLiber (see below), and has carefully proofread and adjusted it to the 1966-67 Mondadori edition of Petrocchi's text. While the 2nd edition of the LiberLiber e-text, based on Johnston's revision, is of similar and at some points slightly superior quality, Johnston's e-text nevertheless has the advantage, in its HTML-version, of including a line numbering. As of 18 July, 1998, Johnston's Dante site offers:
  • HTML versions:
    • HTML online version divided by cantos and with line numbering
    • The same HTML version for offline reading (divided by cantos and with line numberings), available in two different compression formats as file commedia.zip (358 K) or alternatively as file commedia.sea.hqx (518 K)
    • HTML online version divided by cantiche and without line numberings: inferno.html (218 K), purgatorio.html (225 K), paradiso.html (214 K)
  • Unformatted text versions, divided by cantiche and without line numbering, available in different versions which use different modes of encoding accented characters and certain typographical features:
    • 8-bit text version for PC users: inferno-8.txt (179 K), purgatorio-8.txt (180 K), paradiso-8.txt (177 K)
    • 8-bit text version using Macintosh encoding: inferno-8-mac.txt (179 K), purgatorio-8-mac.txt (180 K), paradiso-8-mac.txt (177 K)
    • 7-bit text version for older computer systems, using a system of transliterating accented non-ASCII characters into equivalent ASCII code but not representing diaeresis: inferno.txt (182 K), purgatorio.txt (182 K), paradiso.txt (179 K).

• William I. Johnston had also supplied the electronic text versions of the Project Gutenberg, available there since August 1997 as an unformatted text version (alternatively as 8-bit text for PC and Macintosh or as 7-bit text for older computer systems) which can be downloaded either in a single file or in separate files for each Cantica, see the listing for Dante Alighieri at the ufficial Gutenberg site. If you need the 7-bit version, make sure to get the 7-bit files supplied by Johnston (#1009, #1010, #1011, #1012), because they seem to give a more reliable version of Petrocchi's text than the older 7-bit files supplied by Dennis McCarthy (#997, #998, #999, #1000).

• The electronic version supplied by LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio comes in two different 'editions' only the second of which is still distributed by LiberLiber:
  • 1st edition: Electronic version created by Vittorio Dell'Aiuto with subsequent revisions by others, dated 1994, or 12 December 1995, or, according to the info released together with the 2nd edition and referring to a revised version, 11 July 1997. The source was originally quoted as the 1975 Einaudi reprint of Petrocchi's edition (La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri, testo critico stabilito da Giorgio Petrocchi, Torino: Einaudi, 1975), but certain characteristic variants of typography (e.g. absence of spacings after proclitic apostrophe, as in "Tant'è" vs. "Tant' è" If 1,1; no indication of diaeresis "ë" as in "Enea" vs. "Enëa" in If 2,32) as well as variants of punctuation (e.g. no comma after If 1,2) suggest that this e-text depends on a different source which might be, for instance, Sapegno's printed text or the commercial electronic version distributed by Zanichelli.
    • Text only version created by Vittorio Dell'Aiuto and revised by Marco Calvo, dated 12 December 1995, no longer distributed by LiberLiber but still available as divin-t.zip (218 Kb) at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web.
    • Text formatted in 'rich text format' for MS Word, created by Vittorio Dell'Aiuto, revised by Marco Calvo, formatted for MS Word by Leonardo Costa Coscarelli and by Carlo Alberto Furia, dated 6 March 1997, available as divin-r.zip (239 Kb), at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web
    • HTML version divin-h.htm (531 Kb), at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web
    • HTML version with search engine, set up by by Riccardo Scateni for the Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana of the Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4)
    • HTML version with search engine, set up by Anders Winroth for the Electronic Text Service, Columbia University, NY (1995, advanced search engine added 27 January 1998)
    • HTML version (with introductions and overview tables), by Giuseppe Bonghi and Maria Adele Garavaglia, as part of the I.T.I.S. «G. Fauser» - Progetto Dante. The text was revised by Bonghi and is based on a LiberLiber/Manuzio version by Vittorio Dell'Aiuto and Marco Calvo as of 12 October 1994.
    • HTML online version by Jennifer Hogan, accompanied by the translations of Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow and Allen Mandelbaum, part of the ILTweb Digital Dante Project. The Italian text is based on a LiberLiber/Manuzio version by Vittorio Dell'Aiuto and Marco Calvo as of December 1995

  • 2nd edition: In 1999, the above '1st edition' was replaced by a new or revised electronic version, dated 2 December 1999, published by Alberto Barberi for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio. According to the info released together with the text, the electronic version was based on the original 1966-67 Mondadori edition of Petrocchi's critical text, and William I. Johnston has 'contributed' to the electronic version which was revised also by Marina de Stasio, Claudio Paganelli and Catia Righi. The info does not make clear, however, if this '2nd edition' was created from scratch and based exclusively on Petrocchi's original 1966-67 Mondadori edition, or if it was rather derived from Johnston's revision of the electronic '1st edition' described above. I have compared the text-only version of the Inferno with Johnston's and checked their variants against the electronic version of Petrocchi's 1966-67 Mondadori text in the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI). Apart from added 'capitoli' (abstracts of each canto) in the LiberLiber text (LL), which are not in Petrocchi nor in Johnston's text (WJ), and apart from minor typographic differences I have found the following variants: If 1,32 leggiera LL vs. leggera WJ+OVI; If 1,132 a ciò LL vs. acciò WJ+OVI; If 5,75 leggieri LL vs. leggeri WJ+OVI; If 7,63 rabuffa LL+OVI vs. rabbuffa WJ; If 7,28 comma after arco LL+OVI vs. no comma WJ; If 14,82 da lato LL vs. dallato WJ+OVI; If 14,118 dove LL+OVI vs. ove WJ; If 16,9 essere LL+OVI vs. esser WJ; If 20,38 volse LL+OVI vs. volle WJ; If 20,38 esser LL+OVI vs. essere WJ; If 23,144 no comma after bugiardo LL+OVI vs. comma WJ; If 26,112 comma after dissi LL+OVI vs. no comma WJ; If 27,88 Cristiano LL+OVI vs. cristiano WJ; If 31,39 crescémi LL+OVI vs. crescemmi WJ; If 32,101 no comma after mosterrolti LL+OVI vs. comma WJ. Please note that I have not checked LL and WJ against the full OVI e-text of the Inferno, nor have I so far checked them against Petrocchi's printed edition.
    • Text only version la_divin.zip (223 Kb)
    • Text file la_div_r.zip (246 Kb) formatted in 'rich text format' for MS Word
    • HTML version la_div_h.zip (685 Kb) for download and offline reading
    • HTML version for online reading

• An electronic version of Petrocchi's critical text in the original 1966-67 Mondadori edition can be searched as part of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (access restricted to registered users)

• Online version of the Inferno with search engine, edited or revised by Massimo Guerrieri and Giuseppe Gigliozzi for CRILet (Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura). For this online version, Petrocchi's text of the Inferno (Mondadori, 1967) was transcribed with a standard word processor and converted into SGML. Available also for download as file inferno.sgm (327 Kb)

• An e-text of the Commedia can be purchased as a part of Francesco Bonomi's database "Duecento: Italian poetry from the origins to Dante". Duecento offers also a free HTML online version of this text. The source of the text is not indicated.

• Electronic version of the Commedia with (Italian) annotations, supplied by MediaSoft s.r.l. (Padova). Source: La divina commedia, illustrata dai capolavori dell'arte antica e moderna, coi commenti estetici di Francesco de Sanctis. Note di Lucio Sbriccoli [a cura di Franco A. Rigano], Roma: Editrice italiana di cultura, 1963, xxiii+637 pp.

• HTML version as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

• Online versions presumably based on one of the LiberLiber/Manuzio texts (1st editions) can also be found on various personal homepages:
  • Cantos 5 and 33 of the Inferno (source not indicated), accompanied by the translations of Ciardi, Mandelbaum, and Pinsky, in Charlie Moore's Clickable Inferno

• The Dartmouth Dante Project gives telnet access to Petrocchi's critical text of the Commedia and more than 50 commentaries.

Il Fiore
Recommended critical edition: Il Fiore e il Detto d'Amore attribuibili a Dante Alighieri, a cura di Gianfranco Contini, Verona: Mondadori, 1984 (= Le Opere di Dante Alighieri, Edizione Nazionale a cura della Società Dantesca Italiana, VIII)

• E-text supplied, without indication of its printed source, by Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web, in three different versions:
  • HTML-version fiore-h.htm (132 Kb)
  • Text only version fiore-t.zip (50 Kb)
  • Rich-text-file fiore-r.zip (57 Kb)

• HTML version as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

• An e-text of the Fiore can be purchased as a part of Francesco Bonomi's database "Duecento: Italian poetry from the origins to Dante", and is also available in a free HTML online version. The source is not indicated.

• An electronic version of Contini's critical text (1984) can be searched as part of the electronic version of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (access restricted to registered users)

• HTML version, part of I.T.I.S. «G. Fauser» - Progetto Dante. The text, revised by Giuseppe Bonghi, is based on Dante Alighieri, Tutte le opere, introduzione di Italo Borzi, commenti a cura di Giovanni Fallani, Nicola Maggi e Silvio Zennaro, Roma: Newton & Compton editori, 1993 (= I Mammut, 11), p.873-879

• Electronic version supplied by Carlo Alberto Furia and Roberto Gagliardi, based on Dante Alighieri, Tutte le opere, introduzione di Italo Borzi, commenti a cura di Giovanni Fallani, Nicola Maggi e Silvio Zennaro, Roma: Newton & Compton editori, 1993 (= I Mammut, 11), p.873-879. Available at Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web:
  • Text only version detto.zip (6 Kb)
  • RTF (rich text format) version detto-rtf.zip (8 Kb)
  • HTML version detto-h.htm (13 Kb)

• An HTML version is listed (with invalid link) as part of the Online Library of the ILTweb Digital Dante Project. Source not inidcated.

• HTML version as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

• An e-text of the Detto d'Amore can be purchased as a part of Francesco Bonomi's database "Duecento: Italian poetry from the origins to Dante", and is also available in a free HTML online version. The text is based on the edition Tutte le opere, a cura di Luigi Blasucci (Firenze: Sansoni, 1965)

• An electronic version of Contini's critical text (1984) can be searched as part of the electronic version of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (access restricted to registered users)

• Electronic version, based on Marigo's 2nd edition (1948), scanned by Roberto Gagliardi (January 1997) and revised by Roberto Gagliardi and Tiziana D'Errico (May 1997), for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio
  • Text only version de_vulga.zip (33 Kb)
  • RTF-Version ('rich text format') de_vul-r.zip (37 Kb)
  • HTML-version de_vul_h.zip (48 Kb) for download and offline reading
  • HTML version for online reading

• Two of the three LiberLiber versions, reformatted by Carlo Alberto Furia (Text only and RTF), are available also at Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web

• HTML version based on the LiberLiber version as distributed by Furia is part of the Online Library of the ILTweb Digital Dante Project

• HTML version by Ulrich Harsch for his Bibliotheca Augustana, based on the LiberLiber HTML offline-version

• HTML version, by carey@patriot.net, part of The Latin Library. The source is one of the LiberLiber texts.

• HTML version as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

De monarchia
Recommended critical edition: Dante Alighieri, Monarchia, a cura di Pier Giorgio Ricci, Milano: Mondadori, 1965 (=(= Le Opere di Dante Alighieri, Edizione Nazionale a cura della Società Dantesca Italiana, V); to be compared with Dante Alighieri, Monarchia, translated and edited by Prue Shaw, Cambridge: Cambridge (Engl.) / New York: Cambridge UP, 1995 (= Cambridge Medieval Classics, 4)

• Electronic version (including paragraph numberings), dated 21 December 1999, by Roberto Gagliardi, revised by Andrea Tabarroni, published by Alberto Barberi for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio. Source: the reprint of Ricci's text in the Enciclopedia dantesca, dir. Umberto Bosco, vol. VI (Appendice), Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1978
  • Text only version de_monar.zip(50 Kb)
  • RTF file de_mon.zip (55 Kb)

• Electronic version (without paragraph numberings) supplied by Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web. The source is not indicated.
  • Text only version monar-t.zip (47 Kb)
  • Formatted text monar-r.zip (50 Kb) in 'rich text format' for MS Word
  • HTML version monar-h.htm (130 Kb)

• HTML version (in normalized classical spelling) created by Ulrich Harsch for his Bibliotheca Augustana. Harsch does not specify a single source, but gives for his e-texts of Dante's Latin works only a general reference to various editions, some of which -- Giambattista Giuliani (Le opere latine di Dante Allighieri, reintegrate nel testo con nuovi commenti, Firenze: Le Monnier, 1878-1882), Michele Barbi et al. (Le opere di Dante Alighieri. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana, 2a ed. Firenze 1965), and Luigi Blasucci (Tutte le opere, first publ. Firenze: Sansoni, 1965) -- contain also a text of the Monarchia.

• HTML version as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

• An electronic version, based on Pio Rajna's text (first published in Dante Alighieri, Il trattato De vulgari eloquentia per cura di Pio Rajna, Firenze: Le Monnier, 1896 = Opere minori di Dante Alighieri, edizione critica [a cura della] Società dantesca italiana) as reprinted in Le opere di Dante. Testo critico della Società dantesca italiana, a cura di M. Barbi et al., Firenze: SDI, 1960 (first published 1921), can be browsed and searched as part of the Princeton Dante Project (access restricted to registered users)

• An e-text created by students of the I.T.I. «A. Monaco» (Cosenza) under the direction of Luigi De Luca has been announced as being "in preparazione" for the Manuzio Project

Quaestio de aqua et terra

• Electronic version (without paragraph numberings) created by Roberto Gagliardi and revised by Carlo Alberto Furia (1st ed. 16 June 1997), for LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio. Source: Dante Alighieri, Tutte le opere, introduzione di Italo Borzi, commenti a cura di Giovanni Fallani, Nicola Maggi e Silvio Zennaro, Roma: Newton & Compton editori, 1993 (= I Mammut, 11).
  • Unformatted text file quaestio.zip (13 Kb)
  • RTF ('rich text format') version quaest_r.zip (15 Kb)

• Electronic version (without paragraph numberings) supplied by Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web. The source is not indicated.
  • HTML version quaes-h.htm (30 Kb)
  • Two more files quaes-t.zip (47 Kb) and quaes-r.zip (50 Kb) actually contain the Monarchia

• HTML version created by Ulrich Harsch for his Bibliotheca Augustana; Harsch does not specify a single source, but gives for his e-texts of Dante's Latin works only a general reference to various editions, some of which -- Giambattista Giuliani (Le opere latine di Dante Allighieri, reintegrate nel testo con nuovi commenti, Firenze: Le Monnier, 1878-1882), Michele Barbi et al. (Le opere di Dante Alighieri. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana, 2a ed. Firenze 1965), and Luigi Blasucci (Tutte le opere, first publ. Firenze: Sansoni, 1965) -- contain also a text of the Quaestio.

• HTML version (with frames) as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

Eclogae

• Electronic version (including Giovanni del Virgilio's texts), dated 28 September 1998, created by Roberto Gagliardi, revised by Carlo Alberto Furia, supplied by LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio. Source: Dante Alighieri, Tutte le opere, introduzione di Italo Borzi, commenti a cura di Giovanni Fallani, Nicola Maggi e Silvio Zennaro, Roma: Newton & Compton editori, 1993 (= I Mammut, 11)
  • Text only version egloghe.zip (10 Kb)
  • Formatted text eglogh_r.zip (11 Kb) in 'rich text format' for MS Word
  • HTML version eglogh_h.zip (44 Kb) for download and offline reading
  • HTML version for online reading

• The same texts, with typographic changes, are available also at Carlo Alberto Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web
  • Text only version eglogae.zip (8 Kb)
  • Rich-text-file eglog-r.zip (9 Kb)

• HTML version (including Giovanni del Virgilio's texts), part of the Online Library of the ILTweb Digital Dante Project. Source not inidcated.

• HTML version (including Giovanni del Virgilio's texts) as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

• HTML version (Ecloga I, Ecloga II, without the texts of Giovanni del Virgilio), by Ulrich Harsch for his Bibliotheca Augustana; Harsch does not specify his source, but gives for his e-texts of Dante's Latin works only a general reference to various editions, some of which -- Giambattista Giuliani (Le opere latine di Dante Allighieri, reintegrate nel testo con nuovi commenti, Firenze: Le Monnier, 1878-1882), Michele Barbi et al. (Le opere di Dante Alighieri. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana, 2a ed. Firenze 1965), and Luigi Blasucci (Tutte le opere, first publ. Firenze: Sansoni, 1965) -- contain also the Eclogues.

Epistulae
Dante's letters still lack a complete critical edition that can be recommended without reservations

• Electronic version, dated 30 November 1998, scanned by Roberto Gagliardi (January-May 1997), revised by Umberto Mezzetti, distributed by LiberLiber - La Biblioteca telematica del Progetto Manuzio. The electronic version was scanned from Ermengildo Pistelli's text in Michele Barbi et al., Le opere di Dante. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana, Firenze 1921, p.381-415, and was revised with the help of the (slightly revised) reprint of Pistelli's text in Dante Alighieri, Tutte le opere, a cura di Luigi Blasucci, Firenze: Sansoni, 1965
  • Text only version epistole.zip (32 Kb)
  • Formatted text episto_r.zip (34 Kb) in 'rich text format' for MS Word

• An older, less correct version of Gagliardi's e-text (without Mezzetti's revisions), reformatted by Carlo Alberto Furia, dated April 1998, is still available at Furia's site Dante Alighieri on the Web:
  • Text only version epist-t.zip (29 Kb)
  • Formatted text epist-r.zip (31 Kb)
  • HTML version epist-h.htm (70 Kb)

• HTML version of the Latin texts (complete), together with Italian translations (under construction) and introductions, supplied by Giuseppe Bonghi and Maria Adele Garavaglia for I.T.I.S. «G. Fauser» - Progetto Dante. The Latin text is based, with Bonghi's revisions, on Angelo Jacomuzzi, Epistole, in: Opere minori di Dante Alighieri, vol. II, Torino: UTET, 1986 (= Classici italiani), p.323-469, who in turn had reproduced the text of Ermengildo Pistelli, Epistole, in: Michele Barbi et al., Le opere di Dante. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana, Firenze 1921, p.381-415

• HTML version as part of the Opera omnia put online by Multiskill S.r.l.. The source is not indicated.

• Selected Letters:

  Epistula III (to Cino da Pistoia):

  • HTML version supplied by Ulrich Harsch for his Bibliotheca Augustana; Harsch does not specify a single source, but gives for his e-texts of Dante's Latin works only a general reference to various editions, some of which -- Giambattista Giuliani (Le opere latine di Dante Allighieri, reintegrate nel testo con nuovi commenti, Firenze: Le Monnier, 1878-1882), Michele Barbi et al. (Le opere di Dante Alighieri. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana, 2a ed. Firenze 1965, text of the letters edited by Ermengildo Pistelli), and Luigi Blasucci (Tutte le opere, first publ. Firenze: Sansoni, 1965) -- contain also a text of Dante's letters.

  Epistula VI (to the Florentines)

  • Latin text and English translation, part of the Online Library of the ILTweb Digital Dante Project. Source: Paget Toynbee, Dantis Alagherii Epistolae. The Letters of Dante. Emended Text, with Introduction, Translation, Notes and Indices, and Appendix on the Cursus, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920

  Epistula XIII (to Cangrande della Scala):

  • Latin text (the same in HTML) and English translation (the same in HTML), provided by James Marchand. The Latin text is "meant only as a convenient reading text and should not be preferred to any available critical edition". The recommended critical edition of this letter is Dante Alighieri, Epistola a Cangrande, a cura di Enzo Cecchini, Firenze: Giunti, 1995 (= Biblioteca del Medioevo Latino)

  • HTML version of the Latin text, created by Ulrich Harsch for his Bibliotheca Augustana, source: James Marchand's text

15 January 2000

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