Digital Resources for Dante Studies: a Critical Survey

The article aims at providing a thorough critical survey of digital tools for Dante studies. Since the very early stages of print culture, scholarship on Dante has developed various reading tools designed for a more organized and complete understanding of the Commedia; it is therefore no surprise that Dante studies have pioneered in the field of Digital Humanities, providing, as of today, several research tools. I will present each resource by means of assessing its goals, features, and modes of operation. I will also compare digital resources with tables, glossaries, and other analogical instruments developed by Dante’s readers so as to identify not only the reasons for such an analytical approach to Dante’s poem, but also the possibilities and innovations brought by Digital Humanities.