Comentum Super Poema Comedie Dantis: A Critical Edition of the Third and Final Draft of Pietro Alighieri's Commentary on Dante's "the Divine Comedy"

A leading scholar and judge of the Scaligeri court, Alighieri was a son of Dante, and took on the challenge of explaining in full scholarly detail the philosophical and moral concepts of the most obscure passages of his father's grand work. From 1337 until his death in 1364, he wrote three versions of his massive Latin commentary for learned readers. Chiamenti (Dante and medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, New York U.-Florence, Italy) presents for the first time the complete Latin text of the third version, with textual and informational notes. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR