Bibliotheca Dantesca is an international peer-reviewed open-access 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 with a widely interdisciplinary perspective. At Penn, the Italian Studies program and the Center actively collaborate in organizing events devoted to Dante, such as 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's scholarship in a timely way.
Eva Del Soldato and Mauro Calcagno
The journal welcomes contributions that investigate the works of Dante and its reception from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Bibliotheca Dantesca invites essays related to Dante and Dante's reception 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.
Call for Articles
We welcome submissions for our sixth volume (December 2023). The deadline is June 30, 2023. Please send your contribution, the abstract, and a short bio to our email: bibliothecadantesca@sas.upenn.edu
Submissions should be in English (preferred) or Italian. The journal publishes ARTICLES (double-blind peer-review, between 6000 and 15000 words) and NOTES (single-blind peer-review, maximum 6000 words).
All publications are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
See here the Guidelines.
Current Volume: Volume 5 (2022)
Articles
Front Matter
Managing Editors Bibliotheca Dantesca
A New Spanish Translation of the Commedia and Dante’s Renaissance Readers (1491-1550 ca)
Laura Banella
The Poetics of 'Gentilezza' in the 'Fiore' and the Emergence of Dante's Political Vision Before the Exile
Robert J. Clines
The Human Moment of the Soul
Lorenzo Bartolucci
Thematic Section Articles
Introduction Missiles for the Future: Dante and DH
Elizabeth Coggeshall and Akash Kumar
The Global Popularity of Dante's 'Divina Commedia': Translations, Libraries, Wikipedia
Jacob Blakesley
Exploring Dante’s Sources Online: Interactive Reading, Visualizations, and the Study of Dantean Intertextuality in the Digital Age
Julie Van Peteghem
Discussing the 'Divine Comedy' with Dante: On Crowdsourcing and Transcultural Resonance
Elizabeth Coggeshall
Thematic Section Notes
Introduction: Projects
Elizabeth Coggeshall and Akash Kumar
The 'florin.ms' Project
Julia Bolton Holloway
'Dante's Library': Reconstructing Dante's Material World
Alyssa M. Granacki
Data Visualization as a Tool to Experience the Legacy of Dante's Divine Comedy and its Influence on the Cultural Heritage
Matteo Bonera and Anna Bardazzi
Literary Visualization. Towards a Visual Annotation of Dante's 'Comedy'
Simone Marchesi, Pamela A. Patton, Earnestine Qiu, and Max Matukhin
Dante [Virtually] at Dartmouth
Danielle Callegari
Notes
Scemare, or Approaching “Virgillessness”
Jonny Wiles
Dante's 'Lonza': A Dissection of the Wild Cat in Canto I
Patricia Vázquez
New Dante Worlds
After Dante
Nathalie Anderson
Reviews
Stefano Carrai. 'Il primo libro di Dante. Un’idea della "Vita nova."' Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2020.
Leonardo Chiarantini
Luca Carlo Rossi. 'L’uovo di Dante. Aneddoti per la costruzione di un mito.' Rome: Carocci, 2021.
Federica Coluzzi
Laura Banella. 'Rime e libri delle rime di Dante tra Medioevo e primo Rinascimento.' Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2020.
Katherine Travers
Federica Coluzzi. 'Dante Beyond Influence. Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture.' Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Natale Vacalebre
George Corbett. 'Dante’s Christian Ethics. Purgatory and its moral contexts.' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Tommaso De Robertis
'Selve oscure e alberi strani.' Paolo Grillo, ed. Rome: Viella libreria editrice, 2022.
Lourdes Contreras
Nicolò Crisafi. 'Dante’s Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the "Commedia."' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Alejandro Cuadrado
BD 5 2022 Complete
Managing Editors Bibliotheca Dantesca

Editorial Team - Vol. 5
Director-in-Chief
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Directors
Eva Del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania
Mauro Calcagno, University of Pennsylvania
Managing Editors
Natale Vacalebre, University of Copenhagen
Mario Sassi, University of Pennsylvania
Tommaso De Robertis, University of Pennsylvania
Editors
Juliette Bellacosa, University of Pennsylvania
Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, Penn State University
Federica Coluzzi, University of Warwick
Lourdes Contreras, University of Pennsylvania
Giulio Genovese, University of Pennsylvania
Massimiliano Lorenzon, University of Pennsylvania
Paolo Scartoni, Rutgers University
Eleanor Webb, University of Pennsylvania
Missiles for the Future: Dante and DH, Editors
Elizabeth Coggeshall, Florida State University
Akash Kumar, University of California, Berkeley
Cover Image
Elena Molino, Graphic Designer