ABOUT US
Program description and history, contact and visitor information.

ACADEMIC RESOURCES
Conferences, lecture series, visiting professorships, courses, and library tours.

LIBRARY RESOURCES
In support of collection development in Dante and Italian Studies.

PUBLICATIONS
The Devers Series in Dante Studies, published by the University of
Notre Dame Press.

DIGITAL PROJECTS
The ItalNet Consortium for the creation of online scholarly resources in Italian studies.

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
In support of research and teaching, for ND students, faculty, and
visiting researchers.

LINKS
Other Web resources related to Dante studies.

The William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame supports rare book acquisitions in the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection, as well as teaching and research about Dante across the Arts & Letters curriculum, in particular in the Medieval and Italian Studies areas, through the sponsorship of conferences, fellowships, lecture series, seminars, and visiting professorships. It also sponsors print and electronic publications of scholarly research through the Devers Series in Dante Studies, published by the University of Notre Dame Press, and as a founding member of the ItalNet Consortium for the creation of scholarly internet resources in the Italian Studies area. The Devers Program also funds an annual program of research and travel grants for faculty and students.

Why Italy?
A Symposium at the University of Notre Dame

April 20–21, 2009 — McKenna Hall

This trans-disciplinary symposium is designed to bring together distinguished scholars from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with Notre Dame faculty members from various departments whose scholarly interests and research are related to some facet or another of Italian history and culture from classical antiquity to the present. The aim is to showcase the importance and prominence of Italian Studies at Notre Dame and within the humanities at large.

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Italian Studies Honors Convocation

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 — 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library

The annual ceremony, including: a guest speaker, the presentation of the Joseph Italo Bosco Award for Excellence in Italian Studies, the Ravarino Travel Scholarships, and inductions into Gamma Kappa Alpha (the Italian National Honor Society, of which Notre Dame is a longstanding member).

Petrarch & Dante
Edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.

The William & Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, Volume 10

Forthcoming May 2009

"Petrarch and Dante is a magnificent volume of uniformly superb essays. Instead of surveying Petrarch’s variety or his influence upon later culture, the authors have ingeniously focused on shifting relationships with the poet’s most formidable Italian predecessor, Dante; in so doing, they have produced scholarship that teases out the issues with great subtlety and nuance."

                                 — William J. Kennedy, Cornell University

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The Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini (TLIO) Project: A Historical Dictionary of the Italian Language before 1375

In the summer of 2008, as part of their association with the Opera del vocabolario italiano (OVI), a branch of the famous Accademia della crusca (founded in 1583), the Devers Program in Dante Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies sponsored an instructional program in Italian philology and lexicography. From June 17th through August 12th of 2008, six members of the Notre Dame community conducted research on early Italian texts and wrote entries for the Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini (TLIO), a historical dictionary of the Italian language before 1375. More...

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