National Endowment for the Humanities Grants New College of Florida Professor Additional $120,000 for La Sfera Project

The New College of Florida News

New College of Florida History Professor Carrie Beneš, in collaboration with Amanda Madden of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Laura Ingallinella of the University of Toronto, and independent scholar Laura Morreale, has been awarded an additional $120,000 grant as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Scholarly Editions and Translations program. This follows the initial $120,000 grant awarded to the team last year in 2023. 

The grant supports the La Sfera Project, an open-access multimedia edition of Goro Dati’s 15th-century poem La sfera (The Globe). Beneš, a leading member of a research team spanning over 10 institutions, spent significant time in Europe last year photographing manuscripts of Dati’s work in Rome, Turin, Vienna, and other locations. 

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