Additional Resources
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri Life and Works
Digital Dante website (Columbia University)
The Dante Society of America https://www.dantesociety.org/
Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in our time
Dante Lab at Dartmouth College http://dantelab.dartmouth.edu
Dante's Library (Duke University) https://sites.duke.edu/danteslibrary
Danteworlds (University of Texas at Austin) http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
Discover Dante (University of Leeds) https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/discover-dante/doc/inferno
Mapping Dante (University of Pennsylvania) https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=45210d6ae3a34a8992b4efba164b852c
Princeton Dante Project https://dante.princeton.edu/pdp/
Società dantesca italiana http://www.danteonline.it/english/home_ita.asp
The World of Dante (University of Virginia) http://www.worldofdante.org/
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
Decameron Web Links to an external site. (Brown University)
The Decameron Project | Share Your Story The Decameron Project Links to an external site.
Paradigms of Pandemic: Reading Boccaccio’s Introduction to Decameron Day I, Today Links to an external site.
The Daily Decameron by Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
Cartography
The Franco Novacco Map Collection at The Newberry Research Library in Chicago, IL
See Cartography - Special Map Collections and Strengths Links to an external site.
and Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection Links to an external site.
If you are interested in maps meant for practical use, see Portolan charts Links to an external site.
Marco Polo
The travels of Marco Polo Links to an external site.
Marco Polo Takes a Trip Links to an external site. (NEH)
Marco Polo Interactive Map Links to an external site.
Marco Polo Italian Trader at the Court of Kublai Khan Links to an external site.
Marco Polo The travel writer who shocked medieval Europe Links to an external site.
The Plague
The Plague - Decameron Web https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague
Famine, Plague, and Recovery, c. 1300-1500. Ch. 13 of Bennett, Judith M., et al. Medieval Europe : A Short History. 10th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Representations of Race and Ethnicity
Newberry Library resources: Seeing Race Before Race Links to an external site.; Texts and Art Depict Race in the European Middle Ages Links to an external site.
Very significant for the study of slavery in the Mediterranean: Hannah Barker, That Most Precious Merchandise. The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 Links to an external site.. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.