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Book/Printed Material Commentary on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Commentario sulla Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri

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Title

  • Commentary on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

Other Title

  • Commentario sulla Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri

Summary

  • The manuscript presented here is a two-page fragment of a commentary on the Commedia by the great Florentine poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). The text, written in Italian by an unknown scribe, was produced in Italy the second half of the 14th century, only a few decades after the poet's death. This was also about the time that the poet Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--75) first applied the epithet "divine" to Dante's poem, which Dante himself had simply called Comedia. This fragment was preserved in the historical library of the Franciscans in Skalica (present-day western Slovakia). The Franciscans settled in Skalica in the middle of the 15th century, where they built a church and monastery that operated continuously until 1950. Dante's great allegorical epic in three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, based on the geocentric world view of Dante's time, synthesized nearly all medieval knowledge in a structure of flawless art that is sustained through the work's 100 cantos. Dante's poem was the subject of countless commentaries, almost from the time it was written, and it remains an inspirational work of great literature that speaks to the contemporary world.

Names

  • Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1350 to 1400]

Headings

  • -  Italy
  • -  1350 to 1400
  • -  Allegory
  • -  Epic poetry
  • -  Italian poetry
  • -  Literature, Medieval
  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 folio : parchment ; 27.5 x 20 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Slovak National Library.
  • -  Content in Italian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668161

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Dante Alighieri, Associated Name. Commentary on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1400, 1350] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668161/.

APA citation style:

Dante Alighieri, A. N. (1350) Commentary on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1400] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668161/.

MLA citation style:

Dante Alighieri, Associated Name. Commentary on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1400, 1350] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668161/>.