How to use this resource

Further online materials and lectures

Online lectures

Introduction to Dante 
Claire Honess (University of Leeds) 
To watch this lecture, click here

Duccio and the Flowering of Sienese Art 
Matthew Treherne (University of Leeds) 
To watch this lecture, click here

Giotto di Bondone and Florentine Narrative Painting 
Matthew Treherne (University of Leeds) 
To watch this lecture, click here

Dante and the Vision of Paradise 
Claire Honess (University of Leeds) To watch this lecture, click here 


(We are grateful to Lucy Parkin for filming and editing these lectures.)

The Leeds Dante Podcast

The short recordings mentioned throughout this guide are gathered here.

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Beginning 18 October 2012 and continuing over four years, a team of Dante experts from the U.K. and abroad will carry out a series of public lectures on the Comedy that explore the 'vertical' connections between cantos of the same number across all three canticles. This is the first time that this method of reading (a method that has been discussed by Dante scholars and executed very successfully in studies of single cantos) will be systematically employed to tackle the entire poem.

To access the lectures, click here.