Midway in the journey of our lifeI came to myself in a dark wood,
for the straight way was lost...
It was bound to lead back here:
A project of the University of Texas, Dante's Worlds is "an integrated multimedia journey--combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings--through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy."
It's especially strong on visuals, so you can see the art inspired by the text through the centuries, from Botticelli to Blake to Doré.
But for reading online, the Princeton Dante Project is beautifully clear, and each line has annotations offering commentary, audio, images - anything you might need to enhance understanding. (I've said it before, if Ulysses had such a well-supported site, we'd all have read it).
Great to know that such resources are out there, at our disposal, waiting to teach and inspire.
For some reason, I'm reminded of that killer line of Lucifer's: "The mind is its own place, and in itself /Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..."
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