Dante Notes

Dante Notes is a new web space in which current and engaging research and pedagogy projects related to Dante will be featured. In keeping with the original mission of the Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, and widening it to include a distinct pedagogical section and one devoted to essays by students, this  new venue will host vetted projects and essays for a period of one year, ensuring additional prominence and immediate availability to the readership. With the change of the calendar year, essays that have appeared in this space will migrate permanently to the EBDSA archive in their appropriate sections. With this new series of the EBDSA, our desire is to continue to encourage discussion and debate among Dante scholars by publishing new work that deserves a first airing. Since our electronic format allows the editorial board both to respond to and to publish submissions quickly, publication is possible more rapidly than in any forum devoted to Dante of which we know.

Follow the links below to browse articles published under the respective domains of Dante Notes since 2017:

For archived articles published prior to 2017, please visit the EBDSA site and/or the following annual indexes to Dante Notes:

For submission and other information please contact our editor:

Scholarship

Sex, Floods, and a Learned Gloss. Reading Dante’s Commentators within the Decameron
Simone Marchesi (Princeton University) January 19, 2019

Worse than Dante’s Hell: Parents, Children and Pain at the Border
Kristina Olson (George Mason University) September 28, 2018

Epistle to Cangrande Updated
Henry Ansgar Kelly (UCLA) September 28, 2018

Dan Brown's Infernal Riddle
Guy Raffa (The University of Texas at Austin) March 22, 2018

“Quel Folletto”: Notes on a Hapax
Fabian Alfie (University of Arizona) November 25, 2017

Did Dante Know the Ilias latina? Textual Echoes in the Prologue to the Purgatorio
Filippo Gianferri (Vassar College) November 25, 2017

Dante and Cangrande
Andrea Placidi (Princeton University) November 25, 2017

The following series of articles published in 2016 are retained here as they have been the subject of recent discussion:

Lettera aperta agli studiosi di Dante
Romano Manescalchi (Independent Scholar) March 21, 2016

       Responses:

Pedagogy

Teaching Dante: An Annotated Syllabus
Jacob Root (Grace Church School, New York, NY) November 25, 2018
Christian was the winner of the second annual Durling Prize for teaching Dante at the pre-collegiate level.

Dante for All
Sandy Wilcox (Geneseo Central School) July 3, 2018
Now retired, Wilcox reflects on fifteen years of teaching Dante to high school sophomores.

Introduction to the Undergraduate Dante Journal of Singapore
Andrew Hui (Yale-NUS College) November 26, 2017

Teaching Dante: An Annotated Syllabus
Daniel Christian (Gilman School, Baltimore, MD) November 19, 2017
Christian was the winner of the second annual Durling Prize for teaching Dante at the pre-collegiate level.
See also Christian's contributions to the Fall 2017 issue of Brigham Young University's online journal Lingua Romana, which was dedicated to "Dante and the Public Humanities."

Teaching Dante: An Annotated Syllabus
Barbara Rosenblit (Weber School, Atlanta, GA) April 11, 2017
Rosenblit was the winner of the first annual Durling Prize for teaching Dante at the pre-collegiate level.

Student Encounters

On Stairs, Sloths, and Motors
Helen Harrington (Bryn Mawr School) September 29, 2018

Maternal Considerations on Mount Purgatory
Helen Mackay (Bryn Mawr School) September 29, 2018

Pondering the Celestial Bridge
Will Rende (Gilman School) September 29, 2018

Psycho-Spiritual Debt and Dante
Serena Thaw-Poon (Bryn Mawr School) September 29, 2018

Canto 16 1/2
Andrew Hojel (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas) July 30, 2017

The Lost Canto
Cailan Kelly (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas) July 30, 2017

Epimethea
Carson Kurad (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas) July 30, 2017

The Big Light
Marsie Salvatori (Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, MD) July 30, 2017

Una Voce: The Liturgy and the Divine Comedy
Jason Schwartz (Renaissance Public Academy) March 4, 2017

A Dark Peace
Julia Cardwell (Bryn Mawr School) March 4, 2017

Purposeful Movement
Jwana Khatib (Bryn Mawr School) March 4, 2017

An Artist on a Quest
Jwana Khatib (Bryn Mawr School) March 4, 2017

Guilty as Charged, Yet…
Marsie Salvatori (Roland Park Country School) March 4, 2017

The Journey Continues, One New Canto at a Time
Rosasharn Brown (Weber School) March 4, 2017

Canto 14.14
Sammy Weiss-Cowie (Weber School) March 4, 2017

Canto 30
Sammy Weiss-Cowie (Weber School) March 4, 2017

A “Pilgrim-atic” Portal of Experience
Sammy Weiss-Cowie (Weber School) March 4, 2017

The First Ascent
Sydney Gelman (Weber School) March 4, 2017

A New Bolgia
Sydney Gelman (Weber School) March 4, 2017

“Just Win, Baby”-- Competition and Inferno 10
Emilie Berman (Bryn Mawr School) March 4, 2017

Dear Dante ...
Gwen Plotner (Renaissance Public Academy) March 4, 2017

You Don’t Have to Be an Addict to Be in Recovery
Joanna Levin (Bryn Mawr School) March 4, 2017

Justice, and Not “Just-Us”: Paradiso Challenges the Senior Room
Alex Bauman (Gilman School) March 3, 2017

Dante and the Game Film of My Life
Alex Bauman (Gilman School) February 20, 2017

Dante's Evolving Philosophy on Love
Kelsey Dobler (Portledge School) February 20, 2017

REAL-EYES-ing What Matters Thanks to Dante
Carly Rizzuto (Bryn Mawr School) February 20, 2017

Filled, Yet Not Satisfied
Carly Rizzuto (Bryn Mawr School) February 20, 2017

Enlightening Moments
Carly Rizzuto (Bryn Mawr School) February 20, 2017

Editorial Board

Editor

Simone Marchesi
Princeton University

Robert Hollander
Founding Editor (1995-2004)
Princeton University

Associate Editors

Susanna Barsella
Fordham University

Francesco Ciabattoni
Georgetown University

Akash Kumar
University of California, Santa Cruz

Francesca Southerden 
University of Oxford

Publication Information

Libraries are advised that the ISSN for the Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America is 1545-8415.