Ingrid Castillo

Professor Vargas-Ortiz

March 6, 2016

Annotated Bibliography
Dreher, R. (2014, April 9). The American Conservative . Retrieved from
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-dante-saved-mylife/
This article presents a new understanding of the novel. It gives
personal feedback, emotions, story, and opinions to help the reader get
a better understanding of what is going on. It also gives the reader a fast
and short feedback on the author of the book, in this case, Dante
Alighieri. The author gives his personal experience while reading the
book, and also gives several lines of the poem to explain his reasoning.

Tvrdy, N. (2012, December 3). A Brief History of Dante Alighieri .

Retrieved from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Ti8YbrscO6U
The video as stated by its title is all about Dante Alighieris life, the
author of the book, The Inferno of Dante. It gives the listener information
about what is known of Alighieris life since it says it is not so exact, and
it does states that most of the information is gained from Alighieris own
books. This video helps the reader know more about the author, his
reasons for writing the book, and how he came out with his ideas. It
gives feedback on the time the book was written, political and religious
problems, and the movements that occurred in that era. In the last two
minutes it also focusses on the book, The Inferno of Dante.

Lachman, H. (Director). (1935). Dantes Inferno [Movie]

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The movie Dantes Inferno is a great form of receiving a graphic

form of the book. Even though the film is old, it gives horrifying scenes
that can make the audience imagine what Dante Alighieri wrote in his
poem. This helps the reader to imagine every circle of hell that Dante
and Virgil go through along with the suffrage that each sinner receives.

Raffa, G. P. (2007, November 3). Danteworlds A Reader's Guide to the Inferno.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press . Retrieved from
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index.html

Danteworlds A Readers Guide to the Inferno is just like the book

The Inferno of Dante, but this book gets more into detail. Raffa examines
Dantes poem and gives information about the characters, creatures,
and biblical passages that Dante mentions in the book to let the
audience know who they are reading about in case they dont know. The
reader goes through every circle of hell with more knowledge to
understand everything.

Biography.com Editors. Dante Biography. Retrieved from

http://www.biography.com/people/dante-9265912
Biography.com does a good job describing Dantes life and how
and why he started with his book Dantes Inferno. Dantes biography is
divided into five parts; synopsis, early years, exile, the divine comedy,
and legacy. In this five divisions the editors find a way to clearly
summarize Dantes life, but also to talk about The Divine Comedy,

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Dantes Inferno, or The Inferno of Dante giving the audience a small

summary of what the book is about. It also gives important contributions
that Dante Alighieri accomplished because of his book.

Schemo, D. J. (1995, January 21). Bringing Dante Into the Realm of

Contemporary English . The New York Times.

This article is a little bit different from all the other articles because
in all the others we have been presented information about Dante
Alighieri, but now we well know more about Robert Pinsky. This article
gives information about the author who translated the original book of
Alighieri. The audience now gets to know why Pinsky decided to make
the translation and how he was able to do it.

Stephenson, W. (1995, November n/a). The Atlantic Online. Retrieved from

http://www.biography.com/people/dante-9265912

This article mentions the problems Robert Pinsky went through

when writing the translated version, awards he received, and it also
gives a series of names that also attempted to write the translated
version but werent a success. The article mentions the book and at the
start of the article we can appreciate some lines of the poem, first in
Latin by Dante Alighieri, then in a translated version by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, and finishing with another translated version by
Robert Pinsky. This is useful for the reader to understand the work it took

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to translated Dantes work.

Graphics are the greatest form of translating feelings, but most

importantly to imagine. By this photograph we get to know a little bit
more about the sinners suffrage in hell. We are able to appreciate that
Dante and Virgil are standing in what seems like a rock looking at the
souls that are drowning in water. The book talks about the different level
of hell and their suffering and thanks to this graphic it gives us a better
understanding of what it was like there.

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March 6, 2016

This image is helpful for the audience to know the journey that
Dante had to go through and what he found in every circle of hell. We
are given the sin that was committed by the soul, but also his or her
form of paying for what they did. This helps the reader comprehend
faster what they will find in the book when they read it.

Ben Florman and Justin Kestler, LitCharts Editors (2016). LitChart

on Inferno. Retrieved from http://www.litcharts.com/lit/inferno
The article that will give the audience the most information and
background is this article. It gives the audience important facts, summaries for
every chapter, historical context, what the symbolisms used in the book mean,
quotes, characters, and themes. The article will answer any question the
audience has since it has everything. This will be useful for the audience when

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they dont understand something they read or they dont know someone that
came out in the book since Alighieri introduced a lot of historical people in his
book.