Data Visualization as a Tool to Experience the Legacy of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” and its Influence on the Cultural Heritage

DivineComedy.digital is a digital humanities project that uses data visualization to explore the artistic and cultural legacy of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Developed by The Visual Agency, the platform maps more than 1,100 artworks spanning seven centuries onto the poem’s narrative structure, enabling users to navigate the text through scenes rather than cantos. Combining interactive visualizations, metadata, and audio excerpts, the tool offers both scholars and general audiences new ways to analyze iconographic traditions, reception history, and the evolving visual imagination inspired by Dante’s poem. (b.d.)