“Dante’s Library”: Reconstructing Dante’s Material World

Dante’s Library is an open-access digital humanities project that reconstructs the material and visual world surrounding Dante’s reading and writing. Hosted by Duke University, the site assembles manuscript images, artworks, architectural spaces, and other artefacts that may have shaped Dante’s intellectual environment. Through encyclopedia-style entries pairing material objects with specific passages, the project foregrounds materiality as an interpretive lens, making Dante’s works more accessible to students and scholars while fostering interdisciplinary research into the physical forms through which medieval knowledge was transmitted. (b.d.)