Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies

You can now find all our previous volumes on our new website!
Volumes 1 through 8 are now available with open access and in PDF!

We are still accepting submissions for our Volume 9 (December 2026). The deadline for submission is June 30, 2026.

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Our incredible speakers and presenters are as follows!:
Gary Cestaro (DePaul University)-The Trace of the Q***r in Dante’s Comedy

Kate Driscoll (Duke University)-Q***r Capriciousness in Renaissance Epic

Gerry Milligan (CUNY - College of Staten Island)-The Erotic Allure of Effeminate Men in Ariosto and Tasso

Eugenio Refini (New York University)-Orlando at the Present Time: Feeling the Renaissance with Virginia Woolf (Among Others)

Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University)-Q***r Ontologies of the Renaissance

Responses: James Taylor (Yale University) & Charlie West (Yale University)-Conversation
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Johnny L. Bertolio (Università di Torino)-The Q***r Muse’s Performances and the Renaissance Canon

Jessica Goethals (University of Alabama)-Q***ring the Bella Donna

Jessica Peritz (Yale University)-The Castrato's Q***r Aesthetics

Karen Raizen (Bard College)-Q***r commedia dell'arte

Timothy McCall (Villanova University)-Michelangelo’s David from Q***r Icon to Culture Wars

Responses: Tati Avesani (Johns Hopkins University) & Blake De Luca (UC Berkeley)
Conversation

See you there!

2026 Summer Institute in Italian Paleography An intensive course on reading and transcribing Italian manuscripts from the late medieval though the early modern periods.

We’re pleased to announce the publication of Bibliotheca Dantesca, Volumes 7–8 (2024–2025).

This expansive double issue brings together a diverse set of contributions that highlight both the historical depth and the contemporary reach of Dante Studies. The volume includes essays that revisit foundational questions in Dante’s intellectual and poetic formation, from a reconsideration of his lyric exchange with Cino da Pistoia in light of the ethics of free choice, to a philosophical inquiry into the relationship between usury and so**my across the moral architecture of the Commedia. Further contributions explore Dante’s complex afterlives: his ideological appropriation in modern Italian political discourse, his transformation within visual culture through early twentieth-century photographic projects, and his reconfiguration within contemporary interactive media, including major video game franchises. Philological research returns us to Dante’s textual workshop by proposing new source material for Ulysses’s orazion picciola, while the issue also features an interview on the evolving digital archive Dante Today alongside a rich section of reviews. Taken together, these studies not only illuminate Dante’s works from new critical angles but also demonstrate the poet’s enduring capacity to generate dialogue across disciplines, media, and historical moments—confirming the field’s continued dynamism and relevance.

As always, Bibliotheca Dantesca is fully open access and freely available to readers worldwide.

Read the new volumes here:

Bibliotheca Dantesca, Vols. 7-8 | Bibliotheca Dantesca | Manifold Scholarship This expansive double issue brings together a diverse set of contributions that highlight both the historical depth and the contemporary reach of Dante Studies. The volume includes essays that revisit foundational questions in Dante’s intellectual and poetic formation, from a reconsideration of hi...

Bibliotheca Dantesca invites submissions for Volume 9 (December 2026). The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2026.

Please send the following materials to [email protected]:

An anonymized manuscript

An abstract (submitted as a separate document)

A short biographical note

Submissions may be in English (preferred) or Italian.

The journal publishes:

Articles (double-blind peer review), 6,000–15,000 words

Notes (single-blind peer review), up to 6,000 words