The World of Dante

• Host: Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia
• URL: http://www.worldofdante.org/

Description:

" offers a hypermedia environment for the study of the

Inferno. This project is designed to appeal to the different purposes of a wide range of readers, not simply those with scholarly interests. This version of the Inferno is generated by software from a densely encoded electronic text. Unlike other versions of the poem presently online, this copy of the Inferno has been tagged using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). Search results are retrieved and presented using DynaWeb, a product of the Inso Corporation. The text and searching enabled by DynaWeb and the underlying SGML demonstrates the potential of electronic resources in the humanities. The materials here are incomplete. This site is still under construction; its purpose is to show and test an interface design for ."

– WWW page

Contact:

Deborah Parker

Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

115 Wilson Hall

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22903

USA

Tel: +1 804 924 8209

Fax: +1 804 924 2654

Email: dwp7k@virginia.edu