Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence, Venice and the 'Divine Poet'

Synopsis

Introduction: Dante Between Words And Things -- Part I: Florentine Legacies And Venetian Initiatives, 1481-1540 -- 1 Reading And Refashioning The Comedy, 1484-1536 -- 2 Dante's Verse, The De Vulgari Eloquentia, And The Convivio: Editions And Critical Estimates, 1490-1532 -- Part Ii: Dante And Florentine Academies, 1540-95 -- 3 Dante And Florentine Academies -- 4 His Greatest Partisan: Giovan Battista Gelli As Public Reader Of Dante -- Part Iii: Venetian Dantes, 1544-96 -- 5 New Print Commentaries: The Espositioni Of Alessandro Vellutello And Bernardino Daniello -- 6 Dante And The Polygraphs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Printed Works Of Dante, 1484-1596. Simon A. Gilson, University Of Warwick. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 354-413) And Index.