Digital Dante is primarily a curated online scholarly site devoted to original research and ideas. It is also a resource for accessing some important Dantean texts.
While Digital Dante is scholarly in nature and peer reviewed, it is not an online journal. We do not publish journal articles. We also do not publish opinion pieces or commentary on current events through the lens of Dante. We do publish materials that pertain to an essay/book in progress, or distillations (and further visual analyses) of already published essays or books. In the latter case, we will link to the published versions where possible.
If you are interested in submitting a contribution to Digital Dante, you should think in terms of a highly visual layout, akin to a slide deck, in which you provide captions or brief paragraphs that guide the argument through the material that you are presenting. Proposals should feature a prominent visual or auditory component, and should be written expressly for a digital medium in treating the history and reception of Dante. Our site headings, Text, Image, History, Sound, feature a range of contributions that give a sense of the kinds of materials that we publish.
Digital Dante generally follows the style guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style. We accept contributions in English and Italian. Before sending your submission to digitaldantecolumbia@gmail.com, please bear in mind the following additional requirements:
General Formatting
Authors should send their submissions as a Word or Google Doc and laid out in the way that they envision the text and the visual or auditory materials to appear on Digital Dante. For some examples of a typical Digital Dante layout, see these pages published on our site. In addition, authors should provide a 1-line synopsis of their contribution and a brief 1-paragraph biography at the time of submission.
Citations
When citing the Italian text of the Commedia, authors should use and refer to the Petrocchi edition available on Digital Dante. Given Digital Dante’s global audience, authors are encouraged to include English translations of Dante’s text for contributions submitted in English. When doing so, they should use and refer to the Mandelbaum translation, exclusively available on Digital Dante, and place the translations in parentheses following the source text, without quotation marks around them.
Notes
Footnotes and endnotes are difficult to format on online platforms such as Digital Dante. Please only use hyperlinks and/or in-text parenthetical citations following Chicago’s author-date style.
Bibliography
When using in-text citations, a bibliography should be included at the end of the submission. In absence of in-text citations, bibliographies are welcomed but not required. Bibliographies should be correctly formatted following Chicago’s author-date style.
Images
All images must be in the public domain. Individual authors are welcome to secure permissions for using copyrighted images, but the Editorial Board of Digital Dante will not do this work on your behalf. Full captions for all images, including source information, must be provided.
All content submitted to Digital Dante is covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license. Individual authors retain full rights to their scholarship when submitting to Digital Dante.
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