Exegesis of the vernacular and Latin works of Dante with particular regard to their textual traditions, language, sources, intertextual relations, to the material and cultural conditions in which the texts were composed and the audience to which they were addressed. Digital search tools on the language and contents of Dante’s work and digital philology to produce scholarly and educational editions of his texts. The interpretation of Dante through the centuries with particular regard to the language question. Methodological and national traditions in the study of Dante.