Epic poem · 1891–1892
The Divine Comedy (Norton)
Translated by Charles Eliot Norton
Translated by Charles Eliot Norton (1891–1892)
Also in this archive
Henry Francis Cary’s translation (1814) →
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation (1867) →
E. H. Plumptre’s translation (1886–87; text of the Isbister edition, 1899) →
John Aitken Carlyle (1849), revised by H. Oelsner’s translation (Temple Classics, 1900) →
James Romanes Sibbald’s translation (1884) →
Ichabod Charles Wright’s translation (1833) →
A literal, unrhymed prose version of the Commedia by the Harvard scholar Charles Eliot Norton, long valued by students for its fidelity to Dante's sense; each canto opens with a brief summary of its argument.
Contents · 100 parts
- Inferno: Canto I7 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto II5 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto III16 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto IV12 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto V11 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto VI12 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto VII13 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto VIII12 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto IX18 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto X13 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XI13 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XII15 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XIII14 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XIV17 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XV11 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XVI14 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XVII12 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XVIII12 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XIX12 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XX10 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXI11 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXII9 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXIII7 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXIV9 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXV8 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXVI7 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXVII6 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXVIII8 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXIX8 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXX7 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXXI9 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXXII11 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXXIII10 paragraphs
- Inferno: Canto XXXIV12 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto I9 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto II10 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto III9 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto IV9 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto V7 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto VI8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto VII6 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto VIII8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto IX8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto X11 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XI5 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XII22 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XIII7 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XIV6 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XV10 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XVI8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XVII9 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XVIII6 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XIX6 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XX7 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXI5 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXII5 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXIII5 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXIV7 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXV5 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXVI8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXVII11 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXIX7 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXX8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXXI8 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXXII9 paragraphs
- Purgatorio: Canto XXXIII6 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto I8 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto II9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto III7 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto IV8 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto V9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto VI6 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto VII6 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto VIII5 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto IX8 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto X7 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XI6 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XII8 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XIII5 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XIV9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XV7 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XVI7 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XVII6 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XVIII9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XIX7 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XX8 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXI7 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXII9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXIII11 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXIV8 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXV9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXVI7 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXVII10 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXVIII5 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXIX5 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXX9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXXI9 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXXII8 paragraphs
- Paradiso: Canto XXXIII16 paragraphs