Template:RQ:Dante Cayley Divine Comedy/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from the translation of Dante Alighieri's work The Divine Comedy by Charles Bagot Cayley entitled Dante's Divine Comedy (1st edition, 1851–1855, 4 volumes). It may be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
- Volume I (The Vision of Hell, 1851; archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume II (The Purgatory, 1853; archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume III (The Paradise, 1854; archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume IV (Notes on the Translation, 1855; archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|volume=
– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from|volume=I
to|volume=IV
.|2=
or|canto=
– mandatory: the canto number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The numbers restart from I in each volume.|3=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11
. - You must also use
|pageref=
to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified for the template to link to the online version of the work.
|line=
or|lines=
– the line number(s) quoted from in Arabic numerals. If quoting a range of numbers, separate the first and last number of the range with an en dash.|4=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted from.|footer=
– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=
– use|brackets=on
to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
edit- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Dante Cayley Divine Comedy|volume=III|canto=XXXIII|page=245|lines=16–18|passage=Not him alone, who seeks thy clemency, / Thou '''succorest''', but oftentimes in sooth, / Outrunnest prayer with liberality.}}
; or{{RQ:Dante Cayley Divine Comedy|III|XXXIII|245|lines=16–18|Not him alone, who seeks thy clemency, / Thou '''succorest''', but oftentimes in sooth, / Outrunnest prayer with liberality.}}
- Result:
- 1854, Dante [Alighieri], “Canto XXXIII”, in C[harles] B[agot] Cayley, transl., Dante’s Divine Comedy. The Paradise: Translated in the Original Ternary Rhyme, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 245, lines 16–18:
- Not him alone, who seeks thy clemency, / Thou succorest, but oftentimes in sooth, / Outrunnest prayer with liberality.
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