• <i>Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies</i> (1995), edited by Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
  • <i>Understanding Dante</i> (2004), by John A. Scott.
  • The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets (2008), by Winthrop Wetherbee
  • <i>Dante's</i> Commedia<i>: Theology as Poetry</i> (2010), edited by Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne.
  • <i>Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy</i> (2011), by Dennis Looney — First Prize Winner, 2011 Book Award, General Category, bestowed by the American Association of Italian Studies.
  • <i>The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany</i> (1997), edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and Patrick Boyde.
  • <i>The Design in the Wax</i> (1999), by Marc Cogan.
  • <i>The Fiore and the Detto d’ Amore</i> (2000), translated, with introduction and notes, by Santa Casciani and Christopher Kleinhenz.
  • <i>Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body</i> (2003), by Gary P. Cestaro.
  • <i>Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy</i> (2007), by Justin Steinberg — Winner of the 2005 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Language Association.
  • <i>Petrarch & Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition</i> (2009), edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
  • <i>Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture</i> (2005), by Manuele Gragnolati.
  • <i>Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary</i> (2013), edited by Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli.
  • <i>Boccaccio’s Corpus: Allegory, Ethics, and Vernacularity</i> (2018), by James C. Kriesel
  • <i>Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text</i> (2018), by Sarah McNamer. Winner of the 2017 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Language Association.
  • <i>Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady</i> (2019) by Fabio Camilletti
  • <i>A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works</i> (2019), edited by Martin Eisner and David Lummus.

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