Dante Society Newsletter Volume 15, Number 2 April 2009 are wrapped in pedantic air, remote from Dante Prize, Grandgent Award our common reality. Happily, we know that, thanks to the efforts of generations of As submissions to the current round of scholars and teachers, this has happened. competitions begin to arrive, it is time If anything, we have recently been led by again to urge members to encourage the belief that Dante's appeal to promising dantisti to compete. Sub- philosophers, theologians, ethicists, missions must be sent as e-mail historians, and so forth, foreshadows the attachments to
[email protected] no necessary diffusion of the Divine Comedy later than June 30. For eligibility, size across cultural boundaries all over the limits, and complete guidelines, please world. visit www.dantesociety.org/prizes.html. No one can take credit for this newly emerging reality in Dante scholarship, but I am delighted to be able to mention some Spring Election signs of the novelties. For instance, a "Casa di Dante in Latinoamérica" was Enclosed you will find a ballot of candidates prepared by the Nominating founded in Salta, Argentina, with a 2005 Committee according to our bylaws. gift of library materials from the DSA and Please mark your ballot and seal it in the A Letter from the President from sustaining life member Robert Frank provided "Ballot Envelope." Also Pence. The Fourth Interdisciplinary Con- enclosed is a proxy for the Annual Dear Friends, ference of the Nordic Dante Network will Meeting. Please return it, together with be held in Finland on August 20-22, 2009.