Dante Prize
Dante Society of America
Award: $500 – $500
Deadline: June 30.
To support best student essay in competition on a subject related to the life or works of Dante. Qualifications: Applicants must be undergraduates in any American or Canadian college or university, or by anyone not enrolled as graduate students who have received the degree of A.B., or its equivalent, within the past year. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on the best student essay on a subject related to the life or works of Dante Alighieri. The committee may, at its discretion, split the award between two contestants (each to receive one half of the prize), or it may make no award. How to apply: Applicants must be submit online application form; sent as an e-mail attachment to the Dante Society; undergraduate essays should be no longer than 7,500 words, graduate essays should be no longer than 10,000 words including bibliographies and any other material; the writer's name should not appear on the essay title page or on any other page of the essay since the essays are submitted anonymously to the readers; and Quotations from Dante's works should be cited in the original language and the format of an essay should conform to either the Chicago or MLA Style Sheet guidelines. Focus: Renaissance studies.