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.