iDante, by Carraro multimedia, is an app available for purchase on the iTunes store for the iPhone or the iPad; additionally it is available as a Touch eBook. It is designed to aid in enhancing the reading of the literary text by providing interactive images, 3 dimensional and multimedia content. Even the most avid Dante enthusiasts stand to gain a new experience from this application, as verses and imagery combine in a "new illuminated cartoon digital codex" which aids in making the individual episodes and the characters in The Divine Comedy easier to interpret and understand.
The primary seventy episodes of Dante's journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso are thoroughly illustrated with 500 colorized images drawn by Gustave Dore which are accompanied by original tercets and versus. Additionally, iDante provides a 3D map/model of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise which aid in the understanding of the geography of the circles, terraces and celestial spheres. Users are able to visit these locations and observe 360 degree panoramic reconstructions of such scenes, as can be observed in the following link which gives a brief demonstration of some of the applications of iDante. This is the introductory graphics video for the application: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHA0y4KPFM8
The main contents (some of which have already been described) of the application, according to the iTunes store include: full text of Dante Alighieri's poem in English and the original Italian version, full indices for the 100 cantos, over 500 colorized images, the 70 main episodes of Dante's story illustrated b cartoon illuminations, a 3D model of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, 360 degree panoramic reconstructions and an introductory graphics video (see above link).
Here we can see the app being used on an iPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJJCryJSc-E
It essentially acts as a book, with illustrations, on steroids, as now, the reader of the text is able to move around within the images of the story. They are able to interact with and explore the environment that Dante so vividly describes. The application, quite literally takes you into Dante's world. The application will notify the reader when an interactive feature, that illustrates or helps explain the current scene that the reader is reading about, such as a 3 dimensional image, or a map is available.
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