iDante - The Divine Comedy app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 554 ratings )
Education Book
Developer: Carraro Multimedia
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 27 Mar 2010
App size: 128 Mb

The Divine Comedy inaugurates a new touch eBooks format series, designed to enhance reading of literary texts with interactive images, 3D and multimedia content.

The work can be consulted in various ways, suitable both for those who know and love The Divine Comedy, and for students and newcomers.

Is this your first time with Dante? You’ll be fascinated when reading the illustrated verses with hundreds of drawings. Images and verses combine in the new illuminated cartoon digital codex that makes the episodes and characters of The Divine Comedy easier to understand.

The 70 main episodes of the journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise are meticulously illustrated with 500 colorized images by Gustave Doré and combined with original verses and tercets.

A 3D model of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise will help you to discover the original geography of the circles and Celestial Spheres.
You can visit the main scenes with 360° panoramic reconstructions.

For aficionados of The Divine Comedy, the application offers full text with indices for the 100 cantos; both English and the original Italian text are available.
The Touch eBook was developed by a team of Italian authors and is the first in a publishing format specially conceived for touch devices, such as the iPhone, the iPod touch and soon the iPad.

Main contents:
Full text of Dante Alighieri’s poem in English and the origjnal Italian version
Full indices for the 100 cantos
Over 500 colorized images
The 70 main episodes of Dante’s story illustrated by cartoon illuminations
A 3D model of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
360° panoramic reconstructions
Introductory graphics video

Pros and cons of iDante - The Divine Comedy app for iPhone and iPad

iDante - The Divine Comedy app good for

Great app, lots of hard work obviously went into it. Love the multimedia, but needs a less sensitive way of scrolling through cantos (reading *IS* what this should be about, after all!) and the option to read the original Italian without flipping the while interface/UI to Italian as well. Side by side English and Italian would be ideal. Great version 1.0, looking forward to update - hope these get included to make it a 5 star app! :)
Im giving this 5 stars because this is by far the best guide to The Divine Comedy. Its interactive, exciting, and factual. The only down side is that it is slow and times and that does get to be a bother. I cant wait to see what your updates bring.
A very impressive presentation not only of Dantes classic work, but of Dores haunting illustrations. This app brought new life to a treasured favorite.
This version of Dantes work really is wonderful. Of all in the app store its the best one out there. It not only gives you the entire readings, but images in a 3D viewing and also a full 3D model of Dantes visions of hell, purgatory and heaven. Only thing Im having an issue with is how to navigate threw that 3D model. I can tap it to enlarge it or shirk it down to its original size. But when I have it enlarged and want to move up or down its not that simple, itll either rotate the image or at times kick me out to the main menu. Not sure if Im doing something wrong or if theres a glitch with it. Please fix if there is, or if its me maybe Im not doing it right and so then it would be nice to have some sort of side instructions on how to navigate threw it for a more easier time. Or a better way to scroll up or down the 3D model. Over all its an very great app and worth every penny for me!

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