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In June of 1982 I was teaching a course on Dante at Dartmouth College.Taking note of the fact that three of my colleagues there (Kevin Brownlee, Stephen Nichols, Nancy Vickers) were increas- ingly interested in dealing seriously with Dante in their scholarship and of the fact that Dartmouth's holdings in this area are not strong, I was struck by the idea that a computerized database of the com- mentaries would not only alleviate the situation of my colleagues at Dartmouth, but of damisti everywhere.I have elsewhere char- acterized this notion as "the best simple idea I have ever had"- a statement which perhaps suggests inaccurately that I have had good complex ideas.Dartmouth, as many know, under the guidance of its president, John Kemeny, had become one of the campuses in the world most involved in making the computer serve all parts of its curriculum.It was-and is-a fertile soil for this project.By the end of August 1982 responses from my three colleagues in French & Italian, from the computer people (principally Raymond Neff, then Director of Academic Computing at the Kiewit Computational Cen- ter at Dartmouth), and from the Dartmouth administration were all encouraging enough to get the project started.In May of 1983 the Dante Society of America offered $2000 in start-up funds; Dartmouth itself soon made available some $20,000.Neff and the four humanists consulted through the following summer and produced an application to the National Endowment for the Humanities.This was successful.On 1 October 1984 the project began a more in- tense phase of its existence, supported by $120,000 for that fiscal year (1984-85) and by the same amount for 1985-86 (in the form of $60,000 raised by Dartmouth to match an offer of that same amount in "Gifts and Match" from NEH).In August of 1986 we learned that our second application to NEH had also been successful, this time in QUADERNI diialianistica Volume X. No. 1-2.1989
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