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The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) combines modern
information technology with nearly seven hundred years of commentary
tradition on Dante's major poem, the Commedia.
The DDP, originally developed between 1982 and 1988 (when a prototype
was opened to public use), is an ongoing effort to put the entire texts
of more than 70 commentaries into a searchable database that anyone
can access via the World Wide Web. This gives scholars easier access
to the full texts of many important, and, in some cases, difficult to
obtain works.
Financial Support
Preparation of this database was made possible in part by two
substantial grants from THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES and
through the generosity of Dartmouth College, Princeton University,
The Dante Society of America, La Società Dantesca Italiana, The Mellon
Foundation, Apple Computer Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation,
The AT&T Foundation, and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Funds for the 2005 redesign of the database and user interface were
provided by Paul and Linda [Bornhuetter, '82] Gridley.
Project Participants
The Dartmouth Dante Project was conceived and is directed
by Professor Robert Hollander of Princeton University. The original
collaborators, all then teaching at Dartmouth College, included Professors Kevin
Brownlee, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Nancy Vickers. The original database
design and user interface were the work of
Raymond Neff, then Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth, and
Stephen Campbell, Unix System Manager. Organizational direction was
provided by Janet Stephens and Jonathan Altman.
Stephen Campbell and Kirt Johnson of Dartmouth College
carried out the 2005 web redesign under the stewardship of
Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing for Dartmouth College's
Peter Kiewit Computing Services.
Notice of Copyrighted Material
Certain material contained on this database is copyrighted by the
original publishers, and is subject to the conditions of the original
copyright. Material of this kind is denoted with the tag
"This material is copyrighted and reproduced by permission."
All material not bearing this tag is copyright 2008 by the
Trustees of Dartmouth College. You may freely reproduce the material
on this database in any form, as long as it is not for profit or
redistribution except as reference in scholarly works, or in violation
of the terms of other copyrights. You may not edit the material in
any way without the express consent of the Dante Project and Dartmouth
College.
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