Bibliotheca Dantesca is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Dante studies. The journal represents the result of a productive collaboration between the students of Penn’s Italian Studies doctoral program, who were its first promoters, the faculty in the program, the Center for Italian Studies, and the Penn Libraries. The journal's purpose is to produce scholarship that investigates the work of Dante and its reception in a widely interdisciplinary perspective. At Penn, the Italian Studies program and the Center actively collaborate in organizing events devoted to Dante, such as the Imelde Della Valle Lectures, Lecturae Dantis, talks, conferences, concerts, films, and theatrical performances. The Department of Romance Languages, of which the Italian Studies program is a section, regularly offers courses devoted to Dante and his world, in conjunction with the interdisciplinary program in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Bibliotheca Dantesca thus consolidates the strong commitment of Penn and its Italian Studies community to Dante scholarship in a timely way, by starting its publication celebrating Dante's birth, and also looking ahead to the 2021 anniversary of his death.
Eva Del Soldato and Mauro Calcagno
Call for Articles
The online peer-reviewed journal Bibliotheca Dantesca is seeking articles for its fourth volume, to be published in December 2021. The journal welcomes contributions that investigate the work of Dante and its reception from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. To celebrate the 700th anniversary of his death, Bibliotheca Dantesca invites essays related to the reception of Dante through the centuries, from the late Middle Ages to modern times, and from a variety of perspectives, including Mediterranean studies, gender studies, history of emotion, African-American studies, material text, influence on nationalism, “Italianity,” digital humanities, environmental studies, to mention a few.
Submissions in English are strongly encouraged. The submission deadline for consideration in our fourth volume (2021) is 30 June 2021.
For information and inquiries contact bibliothecadantesca@sas.upenn.edu
See here the Guidelines.
To Submit your article, click on "Submit Article" on the left.
Current Volume: Volume 2 (2019)
Articles
DANTE TRANSLATING
Robin Kirkpatrick
Interview
MY DANTE. A CONVERSATION WITH THEODORE CACHEY ON AMERICAN DANTE STUDIES
Theodore J. Cachey Jr. and Natale Vacalebre
Report
STAGING DANTE TODAY: A THREE-DAY RESIDENCY OF TEATRO DELLE ALBE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Giulio Genovese
Reviews
Italo Bertelli. 'Studi sul Due e Trecento. Analisi e letture da Giacomo da Lentini a Dante.' Pisa - Rome: Serra, 2017.
Mattia Boccuti
Vittorio Montemaggi. 'Reading Dante’s Commedia as Theology. Divinity Realized in Human Encounter.' New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Lorenzo Dell'Oso
Luca Carlo Rossi. 'Studi su Benvenuto da Imola.' Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018.
Mario Sassi
Nicolò Maldina. 'In pro del mondo. Dante, la predicazione e i generi della letteratura religiosa medievale.' La Navicella dell’ingegno, 6. Rome: Salerno, 2017.
Giovanni Vedovotto
Filippo Andrei. 'Boccaccio the Philosopher. An Epistemology of the Decameron.' Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Tommaso De Robertis
Bruce McNair. 'Cristoforo Landino. His Works and Thought.' Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, 21. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Massimiliano Lorenzon
Lina Bolzoni. 'Una meravigliosa solitudine. L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna.' Turin: Einaudi, 2019.
Tommaso De Robertis
Fabio Massimo Bertolo – Marco Cursi – Carlo Pulsoni. 'Il Bembo ritrovato. Il postillato autografo della «Prose».' Rome: Viella, 2018.
Natale Vacalebre
Marsilio Ficino. 'De Christiana Religione.' Guido Bartolucci, ed. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019.
Eva Del Soldato
Reviews Full
Bibliotheca Dantesca Editor
Director-in-Chief
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Directors
Eva Del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania
Mauro Calcagno, University of Pennsylvania
Managing Editors
Natale Vacalebre, University of Pennsylvania (natalev@sas.upenn.edu)
Mario Sassi, University of Pennsylvania (marsassi@sas.upenn.edu)
Co-Editors
Juliette Bellacosa, University of Pennsylvania (jbellaco@sas.upenn.edu)
Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, University of Pennsylvania (brunjo@sas.upenn.edu)
Tommaso De Robertis, University of Pennsylvania (derob@sas.upenn.edu)
Giulio Genovese, University of Pennsylvania (giuliog@sas.upenn.edu)
Massimiliano Lorenzon, University of Pennsylvania (masl@sas.upenn.edu)
Eleanor Webb, University of Pennsylvania (elwebb@sas.upenn.edu)