In the aftermath of the international celebrations for the Festa di Dante in 1865, women entered the fiercely competitive marketplace and the overwhelmingly masculine sub-field of Dante studies and Dantean literature. They authored literary, linguistic, critical and scholarly responses for which they secured publication with prominent publishers in the trade, only rarely resorting to the use of male pseudonyms or gender-obscuring acronyms. They received praise and public recognition through reviews and articles in the national and local, metropolitan and provincial press.