- $194,062
The World of Dante: Teaching the Divine Comedy Through Digital Resources
Recipient: Parker, Deborah W (Charlottesville, VA 22904-4777 USA) in affiliation with University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA)
Goal: The expansion of the website, The World of Dante, to include Purgatory and Paradise, and new visual, audio, and textual resources.
Grant: 181108 / EE-50413-06, Division: Education Programs, Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development, Year Awarded: 2006 - $325,800
Preservation Microfilming and Cataloging of the Dante and Petrarch Collections
Recipient: Kenney, Anne R (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University
Goal: To support the preservation microfilming of 3,432 brittle books and enhanced cataloging of 3,000 additional volumes in the Dante and Petrarch collections.
Grant: 157973 / PA-23109-98, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 1998 - $18,576
Amorum Libri: The Lyric Poems of Matteo Maria Boiardo
Recipient: DiTommaso, Andrea (Detroit, MI 48224-0000 USA) in affiliation with Wayne State University (Detroit, MI 48202 USA)
Goal: To support the preparation of a bilingual annotated edition of the entire lyricpoetry of Matteo Maria Boiardo, an Italian writer of the late fifteenth century.
Grant: 137770 / RL-20407-83, Division: Research Programs, Program: Translations, Year Awarded: 1983 - $4,700
Contrapasso: Dante's Fearful Art of Justice, by Anthony K. Cassell
Recipient: Tracy, Prudence (Canada) in affiliation with University of Toronto (Toronto, ON Canada)
Goal: To support publication of a work that argues that contrapasso, or retribution, is a central concept, philosophically and artistically, in Dante's Hell. Choos-ing five subjects from the Inferno, the author shows how in each case the sin, the sinner, the punishment, and the imagery are joined in an artistic whole.
Grant: 138756 / RP-20446-83, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Publications, Year Awarded: 1983 - $2,229
Toward Publishing Costs of "The Historical Novel" by Alessandro Manzoni, trans. by Sandra Bermann
Recipient: Regier, Willis G (Lincoln, NE 68588 USA) in affiliation with University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Goal: To support publication of the first translation into English of Alessandro Manzoni's "The Historical Novel."
Grant: 138773 / RP-20477-83, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Publications, Year Awarded: 1983 - $66,000
Verga & Realism in 19th and 20th Century Italian Literature
Recipient: Cecchetti, Giovanni (Los Angeles, CA 90024-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)
Grant: 129360 / FS-20473-82, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1982 - $20,000
Translation and Edition of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ORLANDO INNAMORATO (Orlando in Love)
Recipient: Ross, Charles S (Battle Ground, IN 47920 USA) in affiliation with Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA)
Goal: To support translation and editing of Boiardo's epic poen ORLANDO INNAMORATO (Orlando in Love). The 15th century Italian poet influenced Ariosto (ORLANDO FURIOSO), Spencer (FAERIE QUEEN) and Milton (PARADISE REGAINED).
Grant: 137704 / RL-20225-82, Division: Research Programs, Program: Translations, Year Awarded: 1982 - $70,000
Italian Humanism: Latin and Vernacular Foundations of the Renaissance, 1350-1550
Recipient: Scaglione, Aldo D (Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA) in affiliation with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA)
Grant: 129165 / FS-*0134-81, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1981 - $31,214
Niccolo' Machiavelli: An Annotated Guide to Modern Criticism and Scholarship, 1935-1980
Recipient: Fiore, Silvia R (Tampa, FL 33620 USA) in affiliation with New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL 34243-2197 USA)
Goal: To support a bibliography of criticism and scholarship on the works of Machiavelli, including items of interest to linguists, literary and political historians, sociologists, psychologists, as well as to scholars of Italian Renaissance studies.
Grant: 136744 / RC-*2115-81, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Access, Year Awarded: 1981 - $25,000
A verse translation and annotation of Petrarch's Canzoniere
Recipient: Cook, James W (Albion, MI 49224 USA) in affiliation with Albion College
Goal: To support a verse translation and annotation of Petrarch's 366 "Canzoniere," considered the first "modern" literary work.
Grant: 137666 / RL-*1386-81, Division: Research Programs, Program: Translations, Year Awarded: 1981 - $5,000
An Unnamed Comedy by Gianlorenzo Bernini Edited and Translated with Critical Introduction and Notes
Recipient: Lavin, Irving (Princeton, NJ 08540-0000 USA) in affiliation with Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ 08540 USA)
Goal: To support a scholarly translation of an unnamed 17th-century comedy by Gianlorenzo Bernini with comprehensive notes and a critical and historical introduction, to be published as part of the proceedings of the International Conference on Bernini, Princeton University, in spring l981.
Grant: 137444 / RL-*0323-81, Division: Research Programs, Program: Translations, Year Awarded: 1981 - $1,500
Frame Work in the Decameron, by Joy Potter
Recipient: Thatcher, Sanford G (University Park, PA 16802-1003 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ 08540 USA)
Goal: To support publication of a study of the narrative structure of the DECAMERON of Boccacio, emphasizing its nature as a secular work of serious commentary.
Grant: 138616 / RP-*1961-81, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Publications, Year Awarded: 1981 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category Italian Literature; items 1-12 of 12 with a total funding of $764,081.