Dear Cormac,

Thank you for this treasure of informations! It seems that I will be busy
with listening to tapes and CD's until the year 2000, when it will be too
late still to launch my own Y2K Dante radio project! To add some more info
on Dante recordings:

>There used to be an old recording of highlights from the Commedia, produced
>on 33rpm LP records by Fonit Cetra. This doesn't seem to be available now
>in CD or cassette --- unfortunately, the "talking book" on cassette has
>never taken off commercially in Italy. I wonder why.

This seems to be the full recording produced in the 60ies, which Dick
Gibson, editor of "Interlingua" (www.foreignbooks.com), with the help of
members of this list has been able to retrieve from some archive and wants
to republished in digitazlized form as an 'audiobook' (on audio-tape, with
accompanying printed text). I have heard a few samples of this recording,
and as far as I can tell it is excellent.

I have also come upon another (or should it be based on the same?) complete
recording as part of a hypertext edition on CD, listed among the holdings
of the Electronic Text Center at Cornell
(http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/cet/holdings.html) as follows 

    La Divina Commedia
    [Call number:] Disk PQ 4302 .F94x 1992

    Searchable multimedia version of Dante's Divina
    Commedia, with notes and criticism by Bosco and 
    Reggio, links from the text to illustrations and
    representations of Dante's "cosmo" and "viaggio",
    and readings of each Canto by: Giorgio Albertazzi,
    Tino Carraro, Antonio Crast, Carlo D'Angelo,
    Arnoldo Foa, Achille Millo, Romolo Valli. The
    text is the Bosco and Reggio edition, published: 
    Firenze: Le Monnier, 1988.

    [Current location: On ETC3]
    3 CD-ROMs

An apparently different, incomplete recording, together with hypertext
editon, can be ordered online at the following address:

    http://ie-online.it/cd-rom/letterat/erg002.htm 


    Dante PC Talk
    La lettura interattiva de La Divina Commedia

    Tutti i canti di Inferno, Purgatorio e Paradiso, 
    arricchiti da note, da 135 tavole di Gustave Dore'
    e da 100 letture dei famosi Argomenti dell'edizione
    del Tommaseo; 22 brani sono letti da attori della 
    Scuola del Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
    Due sono le vie di accesso ai dati: l'una diretta, 
    con la lettura in sequenza o la navigazione 
    ipertestuale, l'altra libera, attraverso la ricerca 
    di una o piu' parole o frasi in una o piu' cantiche.

    Editore: Ergoset
    Lingua del testo: italiano
    Interfaccia: italiano
    Piattaforma: Windows
    Tipo di dati: multimediale
    Prezzo: L. 87.000 IVA incl.

The mailing address of Ergoset seems to be:

    Ergoset Software Servizi
    20141 Milano, Italy
    Via F. Lassalle 9
    tel. ++39-2-8435712
    fax  ++39-2-8435995

Again a selective recording, and in English, is listed under the musical
recordings held by the the Library of Congress:

   Author:        Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
   Uniform Title: Divina commedia. English. Selections
   Title:         [Selections from Divine comedy] [sound
                  recording].
   Published:     1934.
   Description:   1 sound disc.
   LC Call No.:   LWO 6312 reel 11, B7-8 (preservation master - not
                  for playback)
                  RXA 5641 B7-8 (playback copy)
   Notes:         Title supplied by cataloger.
               Original recordings are 1930s instantaneous discs
                  housed at Columbia University in the Brander Matthews
                  Dramatic Museum.
               Professor Jefferson Butler Fletcher reads two
                  selections from Dante's Divine comedy on March 19, 1934, at
                  Barnard College in New York City.
               Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library
                  of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1971. 1 sound
tape
                  reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, double track, mono. ; 10 in.
               Playback copy. Washington, D.C. : Library of
                  Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1978. 1 sound tape
                  reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips, double track, mono. ; 7 in.
               Forms part of the Brander Matthews Dramatic
                  Museum Collection; for general information, see collection
                  record with title: Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum
                  Collection (Library of Congress).
   Other authors: Fletcher, Jefferson Butler, 1865-1946. prf
   Other authors: Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection
                  (Library of Congress)
   Control No.:   92789118 /R


And, finally, there is Robert Hollander's forthcoming Princeton Dante
Project (PDP), which is scheduled to be online coming February and will
include audio recordings of each canto in Italian (by Lino Pertile) and in
English.

As regards lectures on radio, all I could trace on the web is a French
Dante course in 10 sessions by Marina Marietti, _Dante - La Cite'
Infernale_ (Sorbonne-Radio France, no date), which can be heard (if your
computer unlike my own can handle the format Xing StreamWorks and
RealAudio) at the following address:

   http://www.francelink.com/radio_stations/sorbonne/marietti.html

I hope that some of these materials are of interest also for scholarly and
educational purposes, otherwise I apologize to our members for having give
the matter so much space on this list.

  Otfried

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