History
Original research of a historicist bent
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Dante’s Life (1302-1310): Showing Divergences between Carpi and Inglese
A chart highlighting biographical claims made about Dante Alighieri by Carpi and Inglese. (Nassime Chida)
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Dante Alighieri: A Chronology
A timeline of important historical and biographical events in Dante's lifetime. (Grace Delmolino)
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Teddy Roosevelt, Dante, and the Man in the Arena
An exploration of President Theodore Roosevelt as a reader of Dante’s Commedia. (Akash Kumar)
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Immanuel of Rome and Dante
Immanuel of Rome: The Hebrew and Italian writings by a Jewish contemporary of Dante. (Isabelle Levy)
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Dante, the European Cloth Trade, and the Battle of the Golden Spurs
A historical overview of the connections between the European wool trade, Flanders, and the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Dante's Commedia. (Pieter Vanhove)
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A Possible “Geometrical” Model for the Cosmology of the Commedia: A Synthesis
A geometrical representation of Dante’s cosmology (Susanna Barsella and Vincenzo Vespri)