THE PROJECT
Dante was fascinated by the multiplicity of languages and liked playing with languages and dialects.
This is probably why we find in the Divine Comedy two examples of his invented languages – the language of Pluto (pape satàn pape satàn aleppe) and the one of Nimrod, the king of Babel who decided to build the famous tower against divine will. When Nimrod saw Dante appearing in his infernal circle, he attacked him with an angry, threatening and definitely incomprehensible invective: «raphèl maì amecche zabì almi!».
Dante Poliglotta’s library and the Florentine “Casa di Dante” museum
The collection of translations of the Divine Comedy that previously belonged to Dante Poliglotta - 284 editions in 49 languages and 22 dialects - was donated to the “Casa di Dante” Museum in Florence and is now exhibited in one of the most beautiful rooms of the museum.
Here can Russian and Ukrainian visitors listen to Ulysses’ appeal in their own languages
Вы созданы не для животной доли, но к доблести и к знанью рождены Бо ви народжені не җивотіти, а знання й честь нести у світ ясний
Capuder – 1991 EN
Translation in terza rima by Andrej Capuder (Ljubljana 1942), Slovenian poet and writer. First edition published at Trieste in 1991. Illustrated by Valentin Oman (Villach 1935), Austrian painter of Slovenian language.
Coşbuc – 1925 EN
Translation in terza rima by George Coșbuc (Hordou, today Coșbuc, 1866 – Bucharest 1918), Rumanian poet. First edition, in three volumes, published at Bucharest in 1925. Iillustrated with the Italian anonymous xylographies of the XV century, taken from the Venetian edition of Quarenghi of 1497
Armeno – Dayan EN
Verses of Ulysses translated into Armenian by Arpun Dayan
Nereo Zeper
Nereo Zeper is born in Trieste in 1950. Still a child, he is drawn to music, learning to play the clarinet. At the age of thirteen he reads Salvatore Quasimodo
Giuliano Turone
Giuliano Turone, the author responsible for this Dantepoliglotta website, was born at Santa Margherita Ligure in 1940 and lives in Milan. He is a magistrate of the Italian Republic, now retired. To
Ungherese – Babits EN
The verses of Francesca da Rimini translated into Hungarian by Mihály Babits
Ucraino – Drobyazko
Verses of Francesca da Rimini translated into Ukrainian by Evgen A. Drobyazko
Triestino – Zeper
Verses of Francesca da Rimini translated into Trieste’s dialect by Nereo Zeper
Half-serious lesson about Dante and France
Monologue represented on July 30, 2015 in Lille, France, for the spectators of the World Congress of Esperanto (in Esperanto).
Glottis
This is the monologue "Glottis – Half-serious excursion into the translations of the Divine Comedy" of and with Giuliano Turone, which has been shown in recent years several times
And still the mode offends me
A theatrical presentation (in Italian) of social commitment, about the terrible problem of femicide and violence against women, stemming not by chance from Dante’s verses dedicated to Francesca da Rimini,
