Intertextuality in Dante’s “Commedia”: Hypermedia Dante Network

The Hypermedia Dante Network (HDN) is a digital humanities project that models the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Commedia and its primary sources using Semantic Web technologies. Building on earlier initiatives such as DanteSources, the platform develops a formal ontology to classify and encode references found across centuries of commentaries, distinguishing among citations, parallel loci, and external supports. By enabling advanced semantic queries and interoperable data outputs, HDN provides scholars with a powerful tool to analyze Dante’s sources, commentary traditions, and the broader networks of medieval textual knowledge.