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This year we celebrate the 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), ranked among the top ten greatest poets of all time. Here are some highlights of the events, exhibits, and digital resources dedicated to the poet who "had the ambition to show humanity how to obtain salvation":

• Virtual 3D Tour of Dante's House-Museum in Florence
• The Divine Comedy - its date of composition, structure, description and meaning.
• The World of Dante - a multimedia research tool with Italian/English text of the Divine Comedy, interactive maps, a gallery of artists who have illustrated Dante's work, searchable database, music, a timeline, teacher resources.
• 100 Days of Dante - Join the world’s largest Dante reading group!

  Starting September 8th and ending on Easter 2022, we will read three cantos a week, learning from teachers who know and love Dante well. 

• Dante's Divine Comedy editions, State Library Victoria, Australia - Rare Book librarians showcase some of the gems of their collection.
• 700 Years of Dante in the British Library - "The British Library holds outstanding Dante collections, dating from the Middle Ages right up to the present day, which you can find out about in the following video made especially to celebrate this anniversary." 
• Digital Dante - a research tool of Columbia University, containing the poem's text with commentaries, images, 3D animations, sound, history, and more.
• Illustrations from Early Printed Editions (1487, 1544, 1568) of the Commedia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library Collections, Columbia University
• Visions of Dante - Exhibition, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Sept.14-Dec.19, 2021
• The Dante Society of America -> Prizes and Awards - "Each year the Dante Society of America awards prizes to recognize excellence among undergraduate and graduate students and secondary school teachers in North America in promoting a greater understanding of Dante’s life, time, and works." The deadline for submissions is June 30th each year.
• National Central Library of Florence - initiatives for the Dante year

Graphic Arts

• Springfield Art Museum Exhibit - The Inferno of Dante: Etchings by Michael Mazur - Sept.18, 2021-Feb.20, 2022
• Illustrations of the Divine Comedy - artists who were inspired by Dante's rich visual imagination.
• Visions of the Commedia from the last seven centuries. Each image is linked through to its source where you can often view more images in a series.
• The Infernal Art of Dante's Divine Comedy - an article, which surveys illustrations of the poet's magnum opus from medieval masterworks to contemporary renditions.
• The Uffizi Gallery display - 88 rarely seen drawings of the Divine Comedy by the 16th century artist Federico Zuccari. 

Music

• Classical music composers enchanted by the Commedia and selected recordings from their music
• Dante Alighieri's Francesca da Rimini
• More composers inspired by Dante and their music
• Composers' relationship with Dante
• Dante's Reception in Music - an A-Z list of worldwide musicians inspired by Dante and the titles of their works, Princeton Dante Project.