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Former Warwick Renaissance PhD student Dr Gloria Moorman will soon take up her postdoctoral position at the beautiful John Rylands Library from February 2023, working on the 3yr AHRC funded project, 'Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page'. The project, led by Guyda Armstrong in Manchester and Simon Gilson in Oxford, offers the first in-depth study of the material features of the early printed page for almost the entire corpus of prints (1472-1629) of Dante's 'Comedy', using cutting-edge machine learning computational technologies and image matching in addition to book-historical, literary and art-historical approaches. The corpus for analysis and for the application of machine vision technology is provided by one of the most complete collections of Renaissance Dante prints in the world, held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library (JRRIL), Manchester. The project will create the first freely available online digital library containing almost all extant editions of the Comedy, plus editions of some of his other works, reprints, and French and Spanish translations, some 97 books in total. More details can be found on the website https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/W005220/1 

Warwick Renaissance PhD Candidate Iván Parga Ornelas is this year's winner of the Ann Moss Essay Prize, awarded by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS) for an essay by a postgraduate or Early career researcher on a Neo-Latin topic. The award was announced on 17th November 2022 during the Annual General Meeting of the SNLS which took place in London. The title of his winning essay was 'The Promise of Immortality in Maffeo Vegio’s Supplementum Aeneidos'. Previous winners of this award can be viewed at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/essayprize/