The La sfera began as a public-facing, open access scholarly initiative and this website continues in that tradition. We invite interested researchers (no matter who or where you are!) to engage with the materials we have prepared, and to become a part of the La sfera story.

You can do in several ways:

• By downloading and reusing the data we have collected for your own research,
• By deciphering a previously untranscribed version of the text and contributing your machine-readable copy to the project. This will help us refine our understanding of how the
• By bringing La sfera into the classroom. We have devised a few pedagogical applications, but welcome your ideas about how to use the inviting text to teach about the Mediterranean world in the decades just before the turn towards the Atlantic.