Modern Beatrices Archive The Team The scholars, researchers, and collaborators who bring Dante's Female Public to light
The Project About the Archive The Modern Beatrices Archive is shaped by a community of scholars working across Italian studies, book history, digital humanities, and women's writing. Founded at the University of Warwick, the project has grown through partnerships with institutions across Italy, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Our work is collaborative by design: each member of the team contributes to a shared effort to recover the women who shaped Dante's reception across four continents and a century and a half of literary history.
Project Lead Principal Investigator
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Principal Investigator Dr Federica Coluzzi University of Warwick Federica Coluzzi is a specialist in Italian literature and the history of Dante's reception in Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Her research focuses on women's engagement with Dante from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, recovering figures long marginalised in the canonical account of Dantismo. She is the founding director of the Modern Beatrices Archive and holds a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick.
Collaborators Research Team & Partners
I Bristol Francesca Sartori Research Assistant · University of Bristol Contributes to the archival and bibliographic research underpinning the Authors and Works modules, with particular expertise in Italian women's periodical culture.
II Ravenna Centro Dantesco Institutional Partner · Frati Minori Conventuali Supports the archive's Italian collections and the digitisation of materials relating to Dante's public sphere, providing access to unique holdings in Ravenna.
III Dublin National Library of Ireland Heritage Partner · Leabharlann Náisiúnta Provides access to key manuscript and print sources for the Irish dimension of the archive, including the Alice Curtayne Papers and related Dante materials.
IV Rome Fondazione Marco Besso Heritage Partner · Roma Supports research into the Italian institutional context for Dante's reception, with particular reference to Roman literary and salon culture in the nineteenth century.
The Modern Beatrices Archive welcomes contributions of biographical entries, bibliographic records, and new research. To join the team or contribute an entry, get in touch at f.coluzzi@warwick.ac.uk