Dante and Medieval Latin

==Required books==
* Dante, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso (Bantam bilingual editions, trans. Mandelbaum) ISBN 0553213393, ISBN 055321344X, ISBN 0553212044
* Aquinas, A Summary of Philosophy, ed. and trans. Regan, Hackett, ISBN 0872206572
* McGinn (ed.), The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism, Modern Library, ISBN 0812974212
The Medieval Latin texts and commentaries will generally be handed out in class.
==Spring 2012 readings==
* "Wine, women, and song" poems from the High Middle Ages, including the Archpoet's Confession
* Isidore of Seville on mathematics
* Selections from the Vulgate Bible (Old and New Testaments)
* Medieval Biblical commentaries: Glossa ordinaria and Albertus Magnus (from the Lyons 1651 editio princeps) on Luke
==Essential references==
===Dante's works===
* Princeton Dante Project - You should become intimately familiar with this wonderful and comprehensive resource.
** PDP links the Dante commentaries at the Dartmouth Dante Project. If you don't read Italian, it may be useful to know which commentaries are written in languages you do know.
***In Latin: Bambaglioli, 1324; Anonymus Lombardus, 1325?; Guido da Pisa, 1327-28?; Pietro Alighieri (three drafts from between 1340-64); Codice cassinese, 1350-75?; Chiose ambrosiane, 1355?; Benvenuto da Imola, 1375-80; Filippo Villani, 1405; Johannis de Serravalle, 1416-17
***In English: Longfellow, Oelsner, Tozer, Ruskin, Carroll, Grandgent, Hollander, and Singleton
* Quick and dirty repositories of Dantean texts: Great Dante, Wikisource, The Latin Library
===Dictionaries===
* Traupman's cheap and handy New College Latin and English Dictionary (Bantam, ISBN 9780553590128) will serve your basic needs as well as anything else.
* Lewis & Short's Latin Dictionary is the only major Classical Latin dictionary of any use for Medieval Latin: via Chicago, Harvard
* Schaffer's Reference Stacks have non-circulating copies of Niermeyer's 2 vol. dictionary (PA2890 .N54 2002) and a single-vol. version of Du Cange (PA2889 .M30 1890)
* The most complete (though not up-to-date) Medieval Latin dictionary ever compiled is by Du Cange:
** 7 vols. (1840-1850)
** 10 vols. (1883-1887); a circulating copy also available in Schaffer's Oversize Stacks, PA2889 .D80
* Diefenbach 1857
* The eventual replacement for Du Cange is to be the Novum glossarium mediae Latinitatis, ab anno DCCC usque ad annum MCC. It currently covers from L to Plaka. We don't have a copy, but some of its fascicles can be requested from Le Moyne via Connect-NY.
===The Bible===
The Bible is an important reference for all Medieval literature.
* The Latin Vulgate Bible online: VulSearch, latinvulgate.com, Veritas
* The best Latin edition to own is the Stuttgart edition, ISBN 3438053039. The best Greek/Latin New Testament is Merk's, ISBN 8876535977 - 
* You can consult the glosses of the Glossa Ordinaria online.
* The best English study Bible is the New Jerusalem Bible, annotated edition, ISBN 0385142641.
===Medieval Latin texts online===
* Public domain Classics books - see under "Medieval Latin" (includes several Dante editions)
* SIEPM has an astonishing collection of Medieval Latin philosophical texts
* Aquinas: Bilingual Summa Theologiae, Latin text of Summa Theologiae
* The works of Bernard of Clairvaux
===Some English translations===
* Links here to three English versions of the Archpoet's Confession
* The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (Latin text) (wikipedia:Etymologiae, Wikipedia article)