Dante Text API

Access historical and current Dante commentary data from the Dartmouth Dante Project

API Overview

The Dante Text API provides access to both current (DDP) and historical (Alexandria Archive) commentary data through a RESTful interface. All endpoints return JSON and use POST requests for complex queries.

🏛️ Alexandria Archive

Historical commentary versions from the original Dartmouth Dante Project archive.

  • Version comparisons
  • Textual variants
  • Scholarly networks
  • Cross-version search

📚 DDP Current

Current active commentaries from the Digital Dante Project.

  • Commentary search
  • Passage lookup
  • Statistics
  • Full-text search

🔄 Unified

Cross-system queries that span both historical and current data.

  • Combined searches
  • Version comparisons
  • Variant analysis
  • Comprehensive results