Acciaiuoli, Donato 133, 178
work: Vita Caroli Magni (vernacular version) 142
Accolti, Benedetto 266
work: Dialogus de praestantia virorum sui aevi 266
active and contemplative life (negotium and otium) 34, 116, 169, 249
Aelius Aristides, see Panathenaicus
Aguzzi-Barbagli, Danilo 254
Ahern, John 244, 251
Alain de Lille 216
Albert the Great 212, 213, 219, 278
works: De anima 214, 279;
De causis et proprietatibus elementorum 219, 279, 280
Alberti, Antonio degli 76
Alberti, Francesco d’Altobianco 129, 163
Alberti, Leon Battista 97, 98, 104, 124–30, 136, 138, 146, 163, 173, 176, 178
dispute with Bruni 124–25
echoes of Dante in vernacular verse 127–28, 236, 265
influence on Landino 180, 200
Latinization of the vernacular 124, 127, 129
on grammaticality of Tuscan 124–25, 127
on patriotic value of vernacular 125
promotion of vernacular 124, 125–31
role in Certame coronario 128–30
works: Grammatichetta della lingua toscana 127, 264;
Libri della famiglia 124, 127, 129, 136, 264, 273;
Rime e versioni poetiche (vernacular poetry) 127–28, 265;
‘protesta’ 129–30;
Teogenio 264
Albizzi, Rinaldo degli 100, 264
Albumasar (AbÛ Ma’shar, Abbumasar) 212, 213, 218, 280
Alessio, Gian Carlo 245, 254
Alfonso, King of Naples 147
Allen, Michael J. B., 265
Altamura, Antonio 265
Altrocchi, Rudolph 244
Angelico, Fra 180
Anonimo Fiorentino (Antonio Pievano da Vado) 11, 74, 241, 243, 253, 262
Antonino di Cipriano Neri d’Arezzo 243
Antonio da Castello 243
Antonio da Ferrara 242
Apollonius of Rhodes 224
Apuleius 202
Aquilecchia, Giovanni 243
Argyropoulos, John 133, 134, 210, 224, 277
lectures on Aristotle (especially De anima) 133, 210, 214
Aristotle 112, 114, 116, 201, 212, 227
Bruni’s humanistic translations of 112, 117, 134
in fifteenth-century Florence 133–34
medieval translations of 83
on poet-theologian 30, 187, 190
Plato–Aristotle controversy 210–11
vernacular versions of 142
works: Poetics (De arte poetica) 65, 256;
Metaphysics 248;
Nicomachean Ethics 112, 117;
Politics 117
see also Argyropoulos, John; Comento sopra la Comedia; Dante Alighieri
Armour, Peter 244
Armstrong, Guyda 246
Ascoli, Albert Russell 240, 283
Assumption of the Virgin 148
Athens 32
see also Florence
Augustine (Saint) 74, 202, 203, 209
De civitate Dei 267, 276
Aurigemma, Marcello 256
Aurispa, Giovanni 277
Averroës 49, 213, 214
Averroism (Averroists) 73
Avicenna 49, 212, 213, 214
Baglio, Marco 251
Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo 259, 273
Baldini, Baccio 165
Barański, Zygmunt G., 240, 242, 245, 253, 275, 276, 283
Barbi, Michele 139, 166, 194, 242, 266, 275, 277
Barolini, Teodolinda 239
Baron, Hans 86, 122, 253, 256, 258, 259, 260, 264
Bartholomew the Englishman 216
work: De proprietatibus rerum 216, 279
Barzizza, Guiniforte 209
Basile, Bruno 256
Battaglia, Salvatore 248
Battaglia Ricci, Lucia 244
Bausi, Francesco 259, 266, 268
Baxandall, Michael 180, 273
Beall, Chandler B., 240
Beatrice 38, 156, 252
in biographies of Dante 26, 133, 182–83
Bec, Christian 8, 100, 241, 244, 261
Bellomo, Saverio 73, 249, 256, 257, 273
Belloni, Gino 111
Bembo, Bernardo 273
Bembo, Pietro 237–38, 266
critique of Dante 15, 244–45, 266, 284
works: Prose della volgar lingua 15, 244–45;
Terze rime di Dante Alighieri (Aldine edition of Comedy) 237–38
Benci, Tommaso, vernacular version of Ficino’s Pimander 142
Benivieni, Girolamo 141, 284
1506 Giuntine edition of Comedy 141, 284
Benvenuto da Imola 52, 53, 57, 58, 73, 74, 177, 209, 220, 221, 222, 224, 235, 241, 242, 251, 253
Dante–Petrarch comparison(s) 58
influence on Landino 194, 213, 217, 219, 223, 235
influence on Poliziano 155, 235
influence on Salutati 58, 60, 62, 65–66, 235
on Virgil’s birth under Julius Caesar (Inf. I, 70) 59, 228
Dante commentary: Comentum super Dantis Aldigherij Comoediam (Comentum) 58, 59, 60, 62, 65, 66, 145, 239, 248, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 262, 267, 269, 272, 278–79, 280–81
see also Dante Alighieri: surpasses ancient writers
Berlinghieri, Francesco 150
vernacular version of Ptolemy’s Geographia 150, 268, 277
Bernacchioni, Anna Maria 257
Bernard Silvestris 65
Bernardo, Aldo S., 247, 251
Bessarion, Cardinal 210
In calumniatorem Platonis 210
Bessi, Rossella 260, 267, 268, 277
Bettinzoli, Attilio 246, 247
Bianca, Concetta 256
Bianchi, Luca 265
Bianchi, Natascia 242
Bible 44, 240, 281
Psalms 46
Bigi, Emilio 239, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269
Billanovich, Giuseppe 239, 245, 248
biography (of Dante) see Beatrice: in biographies of Dante; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Bruni, Leonardo; Comento sopra la Comedia; Manetti, Gianozzo
Biondo, Flavio 121, 125, 128, 131
work: De verbis Romanae locutionis ad Leonardum Arentinum 122
Black, Robert 253, 266
Boccaccio, Giovanni 1, 4, 10, 12, 16, 21–53, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 82, 84, 91, 92, 101, 106, 111, 113, 116, 117, 130, 139, 152, 171, 172, 173, 178, 185, 196, 233, 235, 236, 237, 241, 251
allegorism in 43, 46
biographer of Dante 25–32, 182, 183
condemns Florence for exile of Dante 26, 31–32, 173, 174, 175
classicization of Dante in 23, 27–29, 45, 47–48, 52, 53, 55, 105, 233, 235
copyist of Dante’s works 22, 139
cult of Dante (in Florence) 16, 22–32, 60, 70
defence of poetry in 23, 26, 27, 30–31, 52, 64, 188, 243
description of Dante 12, 26, 182
first printing of vernacular works 242
gloss on Cerberus (Inf. VI, 16–18) 44
Greek culture in 48, 54, 224
harmonizes Dante and Petrarch 23, 25, 27, 40, 52
humanistic concerns in 26
illustrator of the Inferno 22
imitation of Dante in vernacular works 22–23, 30, 236, 245–46
imitation of Dante in Latin works 23, 247
imitation of Dante’s Earthly Paradise 258
influence in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Florence (especially on reception of Dante) 24, 42, 55, 73, 133, 139, 194
moralizing tone in 49–50
on Dante’s choice of vernacular 25, 26, 29–30, 43, 45–46, 68, 75, 82, 121, 233
on Dante’s orthodoxy 48–49
on need to recover Dante’s remains 32, 113, 181–82
on statue of Mars (Inf. XIII, 146–50) 49, 220, 222
on Virgil’s birth under Julius Caesar (Inf. I, 70) 48, 59
Paolo–Francesca episode (Inf. V, 73–142) in 246–47, 252
poetics in 23–24
public reader of Dante 42, 53, 69, 99, 243
relations with Petrarch 21, 24–53, 233, 236
residence in Naples 22
works: Amorosa visione 23, 27, 38, 39, 246, 249;
Argomenti 22, 245;
Caccia di Diana 23–50, 245, 246;
Chigiano (L. V.176) 27, 52, 139, 245;
Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine (Ameto) 246;
Corbaccio 23, 30, 52, 246;
Decameron 23, 44, 49, 246, 265;
(IV, introd., 33) 248;
(VI, 5, 5) 180;
De casibus virorum illustrium 23, 247, 249;
De montibus 45;
De mulieribus claris 247;
De vita et moribus domini Francisci Petracchi de Florentia (life of Petrarch) 25, 27;
Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta 246;
Esposizioni sopra la Comedia di Dante Alighieri 9, 24, 27, 31, 42–50, 53, 59, 70, 74, 92, 105, 196, 224, 247, 248, 250, 252–53, 262, 275, 279, 280;
Filocolo 23, 246;
Filostrato 246;
Genealogie deorum gentilium 23–24, 31, 45, 65, 92, 188, 223, 224, 247, 259, 264, 274, 281–82;
‘Ytalie iam certus honos’ 24–25, 27, 30, 32, 35, 247, 250, 257;
Riccardiano (1035) 245;
Rime 42, 252;
Rubriche 22, 245;
Teseida 246;
Toledano (104.6) 245;
Trattatello in laude di Dante (Vita di Dante): (first redaction) 9, 22, 24, 25–32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 46, 52, 55, 71–72, 76, 92, 101, 105, 113, 116, 129, 133, 139, 141, 242, 247, 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 257, 259, 260, 261, 264, 271;
(later redactions) 40–41, 247, 252, 263;
(printed editions) 173, 248;
(title) 247–48;
Zibaldone Laurenziano (29, 8) 22
see also Bruni, Leonardo; Comedy: its problematic title; Dante Alighieri: manuscripts; Greek: etymology of ‘poet’; terza rima
Boethius 202, 223, 280–81
Boffito, Giuseppe 268
Boli, Todd 27, 248
Bologna, Corrado 241
Bonaccorso da Montemagno 192–93
work: Il cammino di Dante 192
Bonaccorsi, Francesco ser 242
Bonagiunta da Lucca 139
Buonconte da Montefeltro (Purg. V, 85–129) 109
Bosone da Gubbio 242
Bottari, Guglielmo 261
Botticelli, Sandro 15, 164, 244
Botticini, Francesco see Assumption of the Virgin
Boyde, Patrick 248, 279
Bracciolini, Poggio 57, 60, 63, 82, 97, 98, 126, 128, 131, 133, 142, 178, 227
attitude to vernacular (and its use in Dante) 255
Chancellor of Florence 133
Latin novelle on Dante 133
work: Facetiae 265
Branca, Vittore 268, 275
Broccardi, Girolamo 103
Brunelleschi, Filippo 192, 243
Bruni, Francesco 246, 248
Bruni, Leonardo (Leonardo Aretino) 57, 60, 62, 82, 83–92, 97, 98, 101, 104, 105, 109, 112–24, 125, 132, 133, 142, 172, 176, 177, 178, 182, 185, 187, 190, 210, 233, 234
alternate modes of reading Dante 113, 114, 233
Chancellor of Florence 83
classical biography in 116–17
critical attitude to Boccaccio’s Trattatello 115–18
criticizes Dante on founding of Mantua 89, 112, 228, 260
criticizes scholasticism 83, 112
criticizes scholastic elements in Dante 84, 91, 121, 123, 177, 232
Greek scholar/translator 83, 112
historian of Florence 112, 117
letter on return of Dante’s remains 112–13, 114, 262–63
‘middle ages’ in 88
on Dante as committed Florentine citizen 117, 123, 175
on Dante’s studiousness 118–19
on Dante’s exile 72, 112, 118, 173
on Dante’s participation at Battle of Campaldino 112, 116
on nature/qualities of Dante’s poetry 118–21, 122, 187
on vernacular (especially in Dante) 115, 120–22, 233
undercuts authority of Salutati 88, 91
works: Cicero Novus (life of Cicero) 263;
De militia 263, 264;
Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum 62, 83–88, 91, 92–93, 112, 114, 121, 123, 177, 178, 232, 259, 277;
Epistolae 264;
Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII (Historiae) 88, 109, 111, 112, 113, 117, 176, 260, 262, 263, 271, 272, 273;
Isagogicon moralis discipline 263;
Laudatio florentine urbis 84, 85, 180, 259, 263, 272, 273;
Oratio in funere Iohannis Strozae 114, 260, 263;
Oratio in Nebulonem Maledicum 259;
vernacular verse 259;
Vita Aristotelis 210, 263, 277;
Vita del Petrarca 114, 121;
Vita di Dante 109, 112–23, 133, 177, 178, 187, 263, 264, 272;
see also Alberti, Leon Battista; Aristotle; Brutus and Cassius debate; Dante Alighieri: deficiencies in Latin language/culture; Domenico da Prato; Greek: etymology of ‘poet’; rebirth/renaissance
Brutus and Cassius debate
in Bruni’s Dialogi 84
in Dante 57–58, 67
in Salutati 66–69
Bryce, Judith 244
Buonincontri, Lorenzo 216
Burchiello 11, 236, 243
Cacciaguida 115
Caesar, Julius
see also Dante Alighieri; Florence: founded by Julius Caesar
Caglio, A. M., 252
Calderoni, Anselmo 129
Callisto, Andronico 224
Cambini, Andrea 271
Camillo, Elena 267
Cammelli, Giuseppe 253, 265
Campana, Augusto 255
Camuffo, Maria Luisa 256
Cangrande della Scala 37
see also Dante, Epistle to Cangrande
Capella, Martianus 30
Cardini, Roberto 139, 166, 182, 266, 267, 269, 270, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277, 280, 283
Caricato, Luigi 252
Carpetto, George M., 261
Carruthers, Mary J., 240
Casamassima, Emanuele 242
Casini Wanrooij, Marzia 244
Cataneo, Simonetta 151
Cato, Marcus Porcius 84
Catullus 2
Cavalcanti, Guido 38, 140, 141, 146, 151, 160, 178
work: ‘Donna me prega’ 146
Cavallari, Elisabetta 240, 253
Cazalé Bérard, Claude 245, 246, 252
Cecco d’Ascoli (Francesco Stabili) 48, 66, 253, 256
Ceffini, Zanobi 284
Cepparello, ser 49
Certame coronario 128–30, 132, 138, 163, 266
reminiscences of Dante in poetry of 129, 265
see also Alberti, Leon Battista
Chalcidius 202
Charlemagne, Emperor 111, 142
as refounder of Florence 28, 70, 88
Chartier, Roger 241
Chastel, André 244, 279
Chaucer, Geoffrey 237
work: Legend of Good Women 284
Cherchi, Paolo 266
Chiamenti, Massimiliano 252
Chrysoloras, Manuel 57, 83, 277
Chrysostom, John 281
Ciardi Dupré dal Poggetto, Maria Grazia 245
Ciavolella, Massimo 267
Cicero (Ciceronianism) 56, 60, 69, 83, 86, 98, 104, 111, 114, 115, 116, 128, 170, 176, 177, 180, 190–91, 192, 203, 204, 209, 211, 223, 224, 281
works: De finibus 203;
De inventione 272;
De officiis 117, 203;
De oratore 86, 87, 273;
De re publica 108, 111;
Disputationes Tusculanae 203;
Pro Archia 65, 273, 274
Cino da Pistoia 38, 140, 248
Cinquino, Joseph 255
Ciociola, Claudio 274
Cipriani, Giovanni 260
Ciriaco d’Ancona 129
Claricio, Girolamo 52
Clarke, M. L., 256
Claudian 71, 152, 177, 178, 192, 257, 281
Cochrane, Eric 253
Coglievina, Leonella 242
Colonna, Francesco, see Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Comedy (Comedia, Commedia, ‘il Dante’) 2, 3, 5, 7–9, 10, 16, 17, 21, 24, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 53, 57, 58, 60, 62, 65, 67, 75, 84, 85, 90, 101, 105, 106, 111, 134
as syncretic synthesis 4, 21
as supernatural revelation 45, 71
auto-exegesis in 5
criticism of its content 15
criticism of its style 16
criticism of its theology 16
cruces in 73
divine poem 30, 61, 62, 66, 73, 100, 133, 170, 248, 255, 261
dream-vision (imitations after) 11, 104, 141, 156, 257
early printed editions of 9, 25, 167
epistemological value of 30
illiterate audience of 35, 42, 47
illuminations in manuscripts of 9, 14–15
illustrations in printings of 15
imitation in Tuscan poetry 11, 55, 92, 135, 146–58, 235–36
imitation in Latin prose and poetry 11, 154–56, 241, 243, 268
Inferno (∗indicates passages commented upon in Landino): 36, 43, 48, 77, 81, 107, 156, 193;
(I) 39, 46, 47, 69, 72, 108;
(∗I, 1–21) 205;
(I, 1–3) 146;
(I, 26) 73;
(I, 30) 73;
(∗I, 61–66) 198;
(I, 63) 157;
(I, 70) 228;
(I, 85) 68;
(∗I, 100–11) 216;
(I, 101) 216;
(II, 91–93) 60;
(III, 34–69) 149;
(III, 112, 114) 154;
(IV) 39, 47;
(∗IV) 205;
(IV, 96) 79;
(IV, 130–32) 208;
(V) 39;
(∗V, 7) 219;
(∗V, 22) 202, 203;
(∗VI, 85) 225;
(VII, 10) 110;
(∗VII, 77) 204;
(IX, 22–27) 49;
(IX, 81–83) 79;
(X, 26) 174;
(XIII) 49;
(∗XIII, 143–47) 220–22;
(∗XVI, 131), 196, 225;
(XVII–XXX) 154;
(XVII, 49–51) 155;
(XVIII, 63) 110;
(XX) 89;
(XX, 82–85) 89;
(∗XXII, 19–21) 227;
(∗XXIII, 19–30) 214–15;
(XXIII, 21–24) 214;
(∗XXIV, 1–3) 227;
(XXV, 97) 79;
(XXVI) 39;
(XXVI, 94–99) 34;
(XXVI, 141) 110;
(∗XXIX) 213;
(XXIX, 51) 154;
(XXXIV, 46–54) 34;
(XXXIV) 58;
(XXXIV, 55–67) 67
its problematic title: (for Petrarch) 40, 252;
(for Boccaccio) 43
its universality 61–62, 73, 80, 105, 189–90
known as ‘il Dante’ 8, 42, 55
Latin translations of (in general) 7–8
manuscripts: copied by Boccaccio 22, 25, 245;
corruption in tradition of 61, 62, 255;
fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Florentine production of 4, 7–9, 21, 25, 141, 143;
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Ashb.942) 255;
HRC 35 Library Chronicle, Austin University, Texas 255;
humanist script in 241;
Laurenziano S. Croce (XXVI, sin 1) 69;
Vatican Latin (3199) 24, 38, 237;
orality in the transmission/reception of 11, 12, 42, 169, 270
Paradiso (∗indicates passages commented upon in Landino): 5, 204;
(I, 73–74) 110;
(I, 82) 191;
(II) 80;
(IV, 49–50) 110;
(IV, 49–63) 150;
(IV, 55–60) 201;
(VI, 124–26) 154;
(XV, 97–99) 174;
(∗XVI, 82) 219;
(XXI, 93) 110;
(∗XXII, 118–20) 216;
(XXV) 5;
(XXV, 4–6) 177;
(XXV, 5) 174;
(XXV, 8–9) 191;
(XXXIII) 80
marginalia in 8, 9
parodic adaptations of 11, 23, 55, 156–57, 235–36, 246
popular appeal/reception of 11–12, 21, 24, 35–36, 84–85
praise of its content 61–62, 79–81, 85
praise of its style 61–62, 66, 79–81, 85, 140
public lectures on 4, 11–12, 21, 53, 55, 76, 135, 232
Purgatorio (∗indicates passages commented upon in Landino): 156;
(I, 7–8) 28;
(I, 1–3) 196;
(I, 21) 80;
(III, 40–45) 201;
(IV, 1–6) 201;
(V, 10–18) 34;
(V, 10–14) 110;
(V, 85–129) 109;
(V, 98) 110;
(X-XII) 152;
(XI, 97–99) 38;
(∗XVI, 25–27) 227;
(XVI, 107) 139, 191;
(XVIII, 19–21) 77;
(XVIII, 52–60) 77;
(∗XXI, 89) 228;
(XXII, 27) 110;
(XXII, 67–72) 64;
(XXIV, 50) 154;
(XXV) 77;
(XXV, 1–3) 80;
(XXV, 61) 80;
(XXV, 43–75) 80;
(XXVI, 124–26) 38;
(XXVIII) 152;
(XXVIII, 7–19) 153;
(XXVIII, 139–44) 64;
(XXX) 72;
(XXXIII, 31–33) 157
roughness of style 62, 266
scientific lore and doctrine in 212
selectivity in imitation/use of 11, 23, 62, 152
varying modes of reading 234–35
see also Benivieni, Girolamo; Comento sopra la Comedia; commentary, tradition; Dante Alighieri; Landino, Cristoforo; Manetti, Antonio Tuccio; Nibia, Martino Paolo; Salutati, Coluccio, Villani, Filippo; Vindelino da Spira; Virgil
Comento sopra la Comedia (1481 printed edition and commentary by Cristoforo Landino) 1, 9, 16–17, 21, 134, 138, 140, 160, 163–93, 194–230, 236–38
abbreviated gloss on Paradiso 219, 280
Aeneid–Comedy relationship in 171–72, 196–97, 225, 226
allegorism in 169, 197–99, 200, 207, 214
Aristotle in 208–11, 213
astrology in 215–22
background(s) to 167–72
classical references in 222–29, 280–283
concern with Florentine identity in 164–93, 235
cosmography in 141, 192–93, 212
dedicatory oration to Signoria 164, 169, 270
defence of Dante and Florence in 173–75, 272
digression/encyclopaedism in 195, 225, 226–27
engravings after Botticelli in 15, 164, 270
etymologies in 195, 196, 223
eulogy of Dante in 189–90
independence from Ficino in 204–5
liberates Dante from foreign idioms 167–68
life of Dante in 182–86
linguistic/rhetorical commentary in 195
moral teachings in 201
on Dante’s exile 182
on Dante’s participation at Campaldino 182–83
on Dante’s remains 182, 273
on Dante’s resurrection of poetry 184–85
on founding of Mantua (Inf. XX) 228–29, 283
on incompleteness of Achilleid 228, 283
on Inf. (I, 1–21) 205–7
on Inf. (IV, 130–32) 207–10, 251
on internal senses (especially Inf. XXIII, 19–30) 204, 214–15, 279
on music 179
on poet-theologian 189
on Statius as Tolosan 228
on Virgil’s birth under Julius Caesar (Inf. I, 70) 228
paraphrase in 169, 195
Plato and the platonists in 145, 183, 199–211, 275
poetic theory in 186–90
popularity and print history 164, 237, 242, 269, 284
reliance on Antonio Manetti 273
reliance on Ficino in 183, 186–87, 203–4, 276
reliance on his own Latin works in 169–71, 199, 213–14, 276, 278–79
relationship to earlier Dante commentary tradition 194–229
scientific lore and doctrine in 177, 211–22, 278–79
soul and soul–body doctrine in 201, 205–7
Petrarch’s vernacular works in 209, 277
see also Landino, Cristoforo; Ficino, Marsilio
commentary tradition (on Dante) 3, 8–9, 10, 12, 15, 21, 43, 48, 62, 73–74, 82, 145, 194–230, 234–35
accessus ad auctores in 43, 45, 72, 173, 175, 271
biographical information in 25
borrowing/emulation in 45
classical references in 57
conservatism/innovation in 9, 73, 235
divisio textus in 44, 73
doctrinal compilation in 45, 252
importance/popularity of non-Florentine commentators in Florence 8, 43–45, 241
literal reading/paraphrase in 44
novelistic concerns in 44
on Hell as essential and moral 73
on Inf. (I, 1) 107–8
on poet-theologian 31, 38
rhetorical/grammatical reading in 73, 275
variant readings in 44–45, 74
see also Comento sopra la Comedia; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Barzizza, Guiniforte; Benvenuto da Imola; Francesco da Buti; Giovanni Bertoldi da Serravalle; Graziolo de’ Bambaglioli; Guido da Pisa; Jacopo della Lana; Jacopo Alighieri; Pietro Alighieri; Maramauro, Guglielmo
Compagni, Dino, see Cronaca
Comparationes philosophorum Aristotelis et Platonis 210
Coppini, Donatella 274
Cornish, Alison 240
cosmography (applied to Dante) see Comento sopra la Comedia
Coturri, Enrico 256
Council of Union (in Florence) 97, 112, 123, 163, 210, 219, 264
Craven, W. G., 255
Cremonese, Pietro 242
Cristoforo Berardi da Pesaro 242
Cronaca 243, 272
Cumaean Sibyl 147
Curti, Elisa 152, 268–69
Curtius, E. R., 248
Dante Alighieri
affinity with his Ulysses 34, 249
and Dominican Order 48, 243, 253
and the questione della lingua 1, 233–34
as Aristotelian 4, 208, 240
as astrologer 100, 217
as auctor 92
as authority on human generation 58, 64, 77, 81, 256, 258
as authority on love 77, 243, 248
as authority on nobility 58, 254
as authority on rivers of Hell 23
as civic patriot/patriotic emblem 1, 4, 32, 54, 63, 101–3, 108, 172, 233
as disdainful 37, 116, 248
as divine poet 58, 66, 77, 101, 255
as ethical teacher 1, 42, 43, 69, 73, 92, 231, 256
as Florentine citizen 1, 32, 92, 98
as ‘medieval’ figure 4
as orator 105
as philosopher 1, 100, 105
as poet for shoemakers 80, 82, 101
as poet laureate 5, 24, 173
as poet-theologian 23, 24, 30–31, 38, 77, 159, 172, 247
as Platonist 1, 144–45, 158, 234
as prophet 1, 237
as restorer of poetry 1
as scientific and doctrinal authority 15, 92, 172, 212, 231
as self-commentator 5
as supreme vernacular poet/poetic model 4, 11, 16, 37, 78, 80, 92, 100, 108, 232
as theologian 1, 78, 100, 105, 247, 260
attempts to create funerary statue 14, 113, 181–82, 262
attitude to books 2
attitude to Empire 3–4, 67, 75, 143, 240
attitude to reading 5, 240
attitude to translation 240
biographies of (in general) 9, 10, 16, 234, 236
classification of sins (in Inferno) 466
compared to later humanists 2, 4
comparison with/equivalence to classical poets/writers 47–48, 105, 171
conception of history 2
cult of 4, 54
defences of 55–92
deficiencies in Latin language/culture: 86, 91–92, 172, 228–229, 239;
(according to Petrarch) 37, 40, 92;
(according to Bruni) 84–85, 86, 89, 90, 121, 123
dialogue in presentation of 21, 40, 56, 135, 187–89, 231, 236
exile 5, 26, 72, 102
influence of scholasticism on 4, 92
innovative approach to antiquity 3, 64, 239
knowledge of Greek language/literature 2, 144
knowledge of Latin language/literature 2, 29, 71
legends and anecdotes concerning 4, 10, 30, 133, 182, 183, 248, 250
marriage 26, 116–17
moral character 10
on authorial control 6
on body 262
on fame/reputation 5
on founding of Mantua (Inf. XX) 89
on Julius Caesar 67, 256
participation in politics 10, 26, 182
personal appearance 10, 118
political interpretations/appropriations of his work 15, 56, 97–124, 234
presence in art treatises 10
presence in chronicles 25, 243
presence in epistolography 10, 243
presence in historiography 10, 236
presence in poetics 10, 24, 64–65, 236, 243
presence in preachers 244
presence in novelle 10, 12, 35, 37
presence in sermons 12
recovery of minor works 135, 143, 159, 160
representations in Florentine art 11, 12–15, 55, 72, 173
Roman origins of family 28, 71
surpasses ancient writers: in Benvenuto da Imola 254;
in Francesco Filelfo 100, 261;
in Giovanni Gherardi da Prato 91;
in Lorenzo de’ Medici 159;
in Cristoforo Landino 172, 185, 192;
in Cino Rinuccini 78, 81, 82;
in Coluccio Salutati 58, 60–61, 82, 84
treatment of neutral angels in 149
use/choice of vernacular by 3, 4, 16, 21, 106, 240
vices (lust) of 26, 36, 248
works (minor; see also Comedy): Convivio: 5, 9, 23, 29, 139, 141, 158, 159;
(I) 159;
(I, i, 13) 106;
(I, v, 6) 235;
(I, ix, 3–5) 106;
(first printed edition) 10, 242;
De vulgari eloquentia: 10, 41;
(first printed edition) 242;
Eclogues (Egloghe) 3, 10, 22, 120, 240, 243;
Epistle to Cangrande 5, 10, 69, 72, 74, 75;
Epistole 10, 22, 41;
(VI) 173;
Monarchia: 10, 41, 67, 123, 143, 240;
(III, iv, 6–11) 74;
(early polemics surrounding) 10, 21;
Questio de aqua et terra: 10;
(first printed edition) 242–43;
Rime (‘canzoni’) 5, 9, 22, 122, 139, 242, 248;
(public lectures on) 76;
‘Rime petrose’ 9, 77, 129, 242;
Vita nuova: 5, 10, 22, 23, 38, 39, 41, 139, 159, 274;
(ch. 25) 122, 264;
(first printed edition) 242
see also Beatrice; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Brutus and Cassius debate; Comedy; Comento sopra la Comedia; commentary tradition; cosmography; dantista; Florence; Giovanni del Virgilio; Homer; humanism; Petrarch; merchants; Landino, Cristoforo; Limbo; Salutati, Coluccio; Statius; Villani, Filippo; Villani, Giovanni; Virgil
dantista, early attestations of term 61, 255
Dati, Leonardo 129, 131, 146, 147, 178
Davanzati, Mariotto 129
Davies, Jonathan 243, 265
Davies, Martin C., 258
Davis, Charles T., 240, 257
De Angelis, Violetta 251, 254
Decembrio, Pier Candido 114
work: De laudibus mediolanensium urbis panegyricus 114
defence of poetry see Boccaccio, Giovanni; Petrarch; Poliziano, Angelo; Landino, Cristoforo; Salutati, Coluccio; Villani, Filippo
degli Ubertini, Guglielmo 110
de la Mare, A., 253
Delany, Sheila 284
del Castagno, Andrea 12, 180
Delcorno, Carlo 246
Delcorno Branca, Daniela 152, 266, 268, 269, 283
Del Lungo, Isidoro 266
del Nero, Bernardo 143, 145
transcription of Convivio 267
vernacular version of Monarchia 143, 267
del Nerone, Francesco 143
de’ Piasi, Piero 242
D’Episcopo, Francesco 255, 261
De Robertis, Domenico 139, 141, 251, 266, 269
De Rosa, Daniela 254, 256
Demosthenes 35, 112, 224
Diodorus Siculus 212, 227, 228, 277
Diogenes Laertius 282
work: Vitae philosophorum 224
Dion Chrysostomus 224, 227, 283
Dionisotti, Carlo 166, 239, 241, 242, 254, 259, 263, 270, 271
di Pino, Guido 245
Domenico da Prato 88–91, 92–93
criticism of Bruni’s letter on Mantua 90–91
works: prefazione 89–91
Domenico di Giovanni see Burchiello
Domenico di Giovanni da Corella 243
Donati, Forese 262
Donati, Gemma 26
Donati, Piccarda 262
Donati Barcellona, Maria 270
Donato, Maria Monica 244, 257
Donatus 26, 27, 30
Dreyer, Peter 270
Duns Scotus, John 4
Durling, Robert 276
England 3
Ennius 184
Etruscans
as ancestors of Tuscans 89–90
Euripides 192
Eugenius IV, pope 97, 121, 124, 128
Feo, Michele 251, 260
Ferdinand of Aragon 167
Ferraù, Giacomo 264
Ferreri, Rosario 246
Ficino, Marsilio 134, 135, 141, 142–46, 158, 163, 179, 186, 202, 203, 207, 210, 211
and the vernacular 142–46
astrology in 216, 218, 222
Christian apologetics in 145–46
copyist of Dante’s Eclogues 142
imitation of Dante in vernacular works 142, 146, 191
letter on Dante’s return to Florence (in Landino’s Comento) 164, 190–91, 192
pairs Dante and Florence 144
Platonizing interpretation of Dante 144–45, 234
prisca theologia in 142, 204
vernacular version of Monarchia 142, 143–45, 203, 234
use of Dantean doctrine/motifs 146
works: Consiglio contro la pestilenza 218, 280;
De amore/Commentarium in Convivium Platonis (vernacular version: El libro dell’amore/Dell’amore) 145, 146, 183, 204, 267;
De christiana religione (vernacular version: Il libro della christiana religione) 145–46;
De divino furore 186;
De lumine 204;
De raptu Pauli (vernacular version: Il rapimento di Paolo) 145, 146, 204, 267;
De vita coelitus comparanda 222;
Disputatio contra iudicium astrologorum 280;
Pimander (Latin translation of) 142, 143;
Platonis Opera Omnia 142, 218, 276;
Theologia platonica 204, 276, 277
see also Benci, Tommaso; Comento sopra la Comedia; Landino, Cristoforo; Manetti, Antonio Tuccio
Fido, Franco 246
Field, Arthur 123, 166, 264, 265, 267, 269, 270, 275, 277, 278
Filelfo, Francesco 98–103, 123
ideologized presentation of Republican Dante 100–3, 123, 234
public reader of Dante 12, 99, 243
teaching at Studio 98–99
see also Dante Alighieri: surpasses ancient writers
Finiguerra, Stefano see Za, Lo
Finzi, Claudio 261
Flamini, Francesco 268
Florence
as Athens 176, 178–79, 273
as mother of poets 25
as tyranny 63
associated with antiquity 71, 72, 98
beauty of 85, 181
catalogues of illustrious Florentines 70, 78, 175–80
chronicles of 176
competition with Rome 90
Dante and its cultural primacy 15, 53, 56, 57, 60, 63, 71, 88, 97, 113–14, 123, 233–34, 247
Dante and its identity 1, 87, 92, 232
Dante’s condemnation/criticism of 101, 112, 173–74, 262
Dante’s love of 5, 262
destruction by Totila 111
economic wealth in 3, 97, 180
founded by Julius Caesar (in Dante) 68–69;
(in Villani) 70
founded by Sulla (in Salutati) 69
humanist movement in 15, 54–92, 97, 104, 132–60, 232
Latin name of 181
Medici rule of 97, 133, 143
military prowess 176
panegyrics of 84, 176–81
pre-Medici oligarchy in 54, 87, 97, 98, 123, 234
public buildings and churches in: Baptistery 177, 178, 191;
Bargello 12;
Cathedral (Santa Liperata) 12, 14, 55, 72, 99, 100, 101, 113, 128;
Palazzo del Proconsolo 55;
Palazzo Pubblico (Florentine palazzo; Palazzo Vecchio/Palazzo della Signoria) 14, 55, 72, 221;
S. Apollonia 12; San Marco 258;
Santa Maria Novella 12;
Santo Stefano di Badia 42
Republican ideology in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century 67, 68, 86, 114
Roman origins of 28, 70, 77
scientific culture in C15 177, 193, 210
Signoria 11–12, 112, 215
Studio (university) 11, 55, 69, 76, 77, 85, 99, 100, 103, 133, 195, 210, 215, 224, 227, 243, 253
‘three crowns’ (‘tre corone’) of 55, 132, 133
vernacular culture in 16, 76–93
war with Arezzo 109
wars with Milan 56, 63, 86, 114
wars with Papacy 56, 167
see also Aristotle; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Bracciolini, Poggio; Bruni, Leonardo; Charlemagne; Comedy; Comento sopra la Comedia; commentary tradition; Council of Union; Ficino, Marsilio; Greek; Manetti, Gianozzo; merchants; Platonism; Salutati, Coluccio; vernacular
Florentine Academy 277
Foà, Simona 275
Folena, Gianfranco 240, 241, 245, 256
Fonzio, Bartolomeo 243, 283
France (French monarchy) 3, 111
Franceschini, Adriano 282
Francesco da Buti 73, 74, 108, 194, 198, 213, 214, 220, 222, 228, 235, 241, 251, 252
Dante commentary: Commento 195, 200, 223, 252, 253, 258, 262, 275, 278, 279, 280–81
Francesco di ser Nardo da Barberino 7–8
Frasca, Gabriele 256
Frate Cipolla 49
Freccero, John 276
Frederick of Aragon 138
Freedman, Luba 244
Fryde, Edmund B., 253, 277
Fubini, Riccardo 260, 262, 266, 267, 270, 281
Gadol, Joan 273
Galen 212, 213, 214
Ganda, Arnaldo 270
Garilli, Francesco 258
Garin, Eugenio 239, 261, 265, 273, 279
Gatti, Luca 280
Gentile, Sebastiano 274, 277
George of Trezibond see Comparationes philosophorum Aristotelis et Platonis
Geri of Arezzo 60
Gerini, Francesco 284
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 243
Ghinassi, Ghino 268
Giacomo da Lentini 139
Gigante, Marcello 282
Gilson, Simon A., 273, 276–77, 279, 280, 282
Giotto 105, 180
Giovanni Bertoldi da Serravalle 209, 241
Giovanni del Virgilio 3, 12, 35, 36, 38
Eclogue correspondence with Dante 3, 10, 12, 22
epitaph on Dante 12, 24, 26, 31, 247, 248
Giovanni Gherardi da Prato 76–78, 92, 243, 269
coins term ‘tre corone fiorentine’ 76
imitation of Dante in works 77, 258
on Dante’s use of vernacular 77
public reader of Dante 76
use of Dantean doctrine 77, 257
works: Il Paradiso degli Alberti 76–78, 258;
Philomena 257;
Trattato d’una angelica cosa mostrata per una divotissima visione 257, 258
see also Dante Alighieri: surpasses ancient writers
Girolamo di Giovanni da Firenze 243
Giuliano da Maiano 12
Giunta, Claudio 251
Gombrich, Ernst 244, 253
Gonzaga, Gianfrancesco 260
Gorni, Guglielmo 127, 242, 265
Grafton, Antony 265, 271, 275
Grahber, Carlo 245
Graziolo de’ Bambaglioli 241
Grayson, Cecil 239, 264
Greco, Aulo 269
Greek
etymologies 48, 196, 224, 275
etymology of ‘poet’: in Boccaccio 31, 119;
in Bruni 119;
in Petrarch 119;
in Salutati 119;
in Landino 188
recovery of ancient language and literature (in Florence) 339
Gregory the Great, St 46, 74, 281
work: Moralia 74
Greenfield, Concetta Carestia 248
Gualdo Rosa, Lucia 259, 263, 264
Guerri, Domenico 243
Guicciardini, Luigi 104
Guido da Pisa 1, 44, 49, 71, 178, 235, 241
Dante commentary: Expositiones 28, 43, 239, 248, 253
Guinizelli, Guido 38, 138
Guittone d’Arezzo 38
Hainsworth, Peter 252
Hankey, Teresa 257
Hankins, James 218, 259, 264, 265, 276, 277, 279, 280
Hercules 63–64
Herodotus 224, 227
Hermes Trismegistus 142
hermetic tradition 142
Hesiod 155, 224, 282
Holbrook, Richard Thayer 244
Hollander, Robert 246, 247, 260
Holmes, George 253, 258, 261
Holub, Robert C., 240
Homer 35, 37, 48, 105, 184, 190, 192, 224, 281
compared with Dante 29, 35, 73–74, 108, 129, 185, 199
Iliad 128, 224
Odyssey 48, 119
Horace 29, 75, 182, 223, 224, 226, 244, 281
Ars poetica 273
humanism
ancients versus moderns debate in 60
application of ideas to Dante 28, 47–48, 92, 123
contempt for common herd 36
civic 86, 114
epistolography in 54
Greek studies in 54, 57
historiography in 54, 77, 83
its critique of Dante 4, 16, 51, 55–93, 105, 232
its varying assessment of Dante 15, 232–34
moral philosophy in 54, 83
patristic studies in 54
superiority of Latin in 76
textual criticism/philology in 2, 54, 56, 70, 86
vernacular (in Florence) 132–60
see also Aristotle; Boccaccio, Giovanni; commentary tradition; Dante Alighieri; Florence; Latin; Petrarch; Pliny: Historia naturalis; Rinuccini, Cino; Salutati, Coluccio; Rome
Hume, Robert D., 241
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 270
Iannucci, Amilcare A., 240, 283
Ianzitti, Gary 263
Institutiones 127
intertexuality (imitation)
as mode of reading 11
see also Boccaccio, Giovanni; Comedy: dream-vision (imitation after); Giovanni Gherardi da Prato; Ficino, Marsilio; Medici, Lorenzo de’; Palmieri, Matteo; Petrarch; Poliziano, Angelo; terza rima
Isidore of Seville 223
Jacopo Alighieri 173, 241
Chiose all’Inferno 173, 242, 271
Credo 242
Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia 277
Jacopo della Lana 167, 216, 220, 241
Dante commentary: Commento 167, 212, 235, 242, 252, 278
Jauss, Hans Robert 6–7, 240, 241
Jenaro-MacLennan, L., 242, 245
Jenson, Nicolas 224, 267
Jerome, St 281
Jordan, Constance 262
Juvenal 223, 224, 226, 281
Kallendorf, Craig 166, 248, 252, 270, 271
Kay, Richard 240
Keen, Catherine 240
Kemp, Martin 243
Kent, Dale 261
Kirkham, Victoria 248
Kleiner, John 275
Kristeller, Paul Oskar 265, 267, 276, 277, 281
La Brasca, Francesco 166, 269, 270, 275
Lancia Andrea see Ottimo commento
Landino, Cristoforo 9, 11, 134, 135–38, 140, 141, 158, 163–93, 194–230, 233–34, 235, 236, 237–38, 253
allegorical interpretation of Aeneid 170–71, 270
civic offices held by 163
commentator on classical texts 163, 272
defence of vernacular in 135–38, 163
influences Ficino’s Platonizing reading of Comedy 145
lectures at Studio 135, 163, 169, 186, 196
lectures on Aeneid 145, 170
on Dante’s resurrection of poetry 138
on imitation 170
on need to imitate/transfer Latin in vernacular 136–37, 141–42, 186, 196, 274
on patriotic value of vernacular 137, 168
spelling of Virgil’s name 283
works: prolusione to Dante’s Comedy 138, 185;
prolusione to Petrarch’s vernacular poetry 135–38, 139, 141, 178, 184, 272;
De anima 169, 199, 201, 213, 214, 278;
Disputationes Camaldulenses (DC): 169–72, 186, 199, 204, 207, 271, 276;
(printed edition) 270;
(vernacular version) 271;
vernacular version of Pliny’s Historia Naturalis 141, 267;
Xandra (Latin poetry) 163
see also Alberti, Leon Battista; Comento sopra la Comedia; Dante Alighieri: surpasses ancient writers; Greek: etymology of ‘poet’; Manetti, Antonio Tuccio; Platonism; Poliziano, Angelo
Lanza, Antonio 87, 243, 254, 255, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 269
Lapo da Castiglionchio 178
Larner, John 273, 277
Latin
decline of eloquence in 177
humanist debate on 98, 121–22, 125
prose style in 3, 56
Latini, Brunetto 115
Lentzen, Manfred 166, 270, 275, 282
Leonardo da Vinci 243
Lerner, Robert C., 247
Liber de causis 240
Limbo (in Dante) 2, 48, 253
Lines, David A., 265
Lippi, Filippo 180
Livy 2
Lo Cascio, Renzo 268
Lombard, Peter 78, 81
Lo Monaco, Francesco 271
Lorenzo di Giovanni da Pisa 243
Loschi, Antonio 57, 63, 78
Lovati, Lovato dei 2
Lucan 75, 226, 281
Lucian 224, 282
Lucretius 2, 184
Luiso, Francesco Paolo 258
Luschino, Benedetto 284
Macrobius 30, 111, 203, 207, 209, 267
Commentarium in Somnium Scipionis 203, 207, 267
Madrignani, Carlo Alberto 263
Maggini, Francesco 267
Maissen, Thomas 257, 262
Malecarni, Francesco 265
Malpaghini, Giovanni 99, 243
Manetti, Antonio Tuccio 135, 141, 176
and Ficino 142, 143, 145
copyist of Dante (Comedy/Convivio) 141, 143
cosmographical studies of Inferno 141, 193
edition of Comedy 141
works: letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici on Dante’s remains 266;
Notizia 141, 142, 266, 267
Manetti, Gianozzo 132–33, 175
biographer of Dante 132–33, 182, 183
on Dante’s participation at Battle of Campaldino 133
on Dante’s remains 181
on Dante’s treatment by Florence 133
work: Vitae 132, 265, 272
Manfred of Monferrato 243
Mansi, Maria Luisa 263
Manutius, Aldus 237
Maramauro, Guglielmo
Dante commentary: Expositione 255
Maraschio, Nicoletta 264
Marcel, Raymond 265
Marchesini, Umberto 256
Marchisio, Cesare 244
Marietti, Martina 258
Marrasio, Giovanni 264
Marsh, David 259
Marsili, Luigi 76
Marsilio da Santa Sofia 77
Marsuppini, Carlo 99, 103, 126
Martelli, Mario 248, 258, 261, 266, 267, 268, 269
Martellotti, Guido 240, 248
Martial 2, 250
work: Epigrammata 250
Martindale, Charles 240, 241
Martines, Lauro 258, 261
Martinez, Ronald L., 276
Masaccio 180
Masha’allah (Mishael) 216
Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony 276
Mazzocco, Angelo 122, 264
Mazzoni, Francesco 242, 252
McCormick, Andrew P., 241, 283
McLaughlin, Martin L., 247, 249, 260, 268, 269
McNair, Bruce G., 270, 275, 277, 278, 279
Medici, Cosimo de’ 97, 98, 123, 134, 142, 176
his library 242, 258
Medici, Giuliano de’ 151, 167
Medici, Giuliana de’ 252
Medici, Lorenzo de’ 131, 134, 138, 156–60, 163, 167
cognitive value of poetry 158
cultural guide of Florence 158
imitation of Dante in vernacular prose and poetry 156–59, 236
judgement on Dante 159–60
patriotic value of vernacular 158–59
parodic treatment of Dante 156–57, 236, 269
works: Comento de’ miei sonetti 158–59, 244, 269;
De summo bono 158;
lyric poetry (Canzoniere); 156, 158, 269;
Simposio 156–57, 158, 269
see also Dante Alighieri: surpasses ancient writers; Pico della Mirandola; Manetti, Antonio Tuccio: works; terza rima
Medici, Lorenzo di Giovanni de’ 99, 103
Medici, Piero de’ 128, 143
Memnon 221, 280
merchants (Florentine) 3, 180
as readers of Dante 8, 145, 192, 241
use of Dante in writings of 10, 243
Mercuri, Roberto 39, 245, 247, 249, 251
Mésoniat, Claudio 248
Messeri, Antonio 261
Messina, Michele 261, 268
Mezzani, Menghino 61, 255
Michelangelo Buonarroti 249
Michelino, Domenico 12, 173
Miglio, Luisa 241, 244
Minnis, Alistair J., 252
Monfasani, John 277
Montano, Rocco 239
Moreau, Joseph 277
Mortensen, Lars B., 259
Musaeus 184
Mussato, Albertino 2, 3, 30, 60
Nardi, Bruno 245, 276
Nardo di Cione 12
Nastasio da Polenta 112
Nasti, Paola 242
Nesi, Giovanni 284
Nibia, Martino Paolo (Nidobeato) 167, 237, 242
1478 printed edition of Comedy 167
Niccoli, Niccolò 60, 82, 83–86, 87, 88, 92, 97, 98, 100, 126, 132, 178
Niccolò da Tuderano 61, 65
Niccolò da Uzzano 100
Niccolò Tedesco (Niccolò della Magna) 164, 270, 277
Nicholas V, pope 133
Ockham, William of 4
O’Donnel, Reginald J., 255
Onesto Bolognese 140
Origen 148, 149
Orlandini, Paolo 284
Orpheus 184
Orvieto, Paolo 243, 268, 269
Ottimo commento (Dante commentary by Andrea Lancia) 235, 241, 262, 283
Ovid 29, 49, 75, 81, 120, 192, 225, 226, 281
Metamorphoses 119
Owen, Rachel 244
Padoan, Giorgio 239, 245, 247, 252
Palmieri, Matteo 98, 104–8, 112, 125, 135, 147–50, 178, 185, 207, 236
doctrine in 148–49, 150
imitation of Dante in vernacular works: Vita civile 110–12, 262;
Città di Dio 148–50, 268
on Dante’s obscurity 105
on Dante’s participation at Battle of Campaldino 108–9
on Inferno (I, 1) 104
treatment of neutral angels 147–48, 149–50
use of Plato 108, 145, 148
views on vernacular 104–6
works: Città di Dio 104, 147–50, 268;
De temporibus 257;
Vita civile 104–11, 112, 145, 147, 148, 149, 178, 261–262, 273, 277
see also terza rima
Panathenaicus 273
Pandolfini, Agnolo 104
Paolazzi, Carlo 40, 247, 252, 253
Papanti, Filippo 243
Paparelli, Gioacchino 245, 247, 255
Papini, Giovanni 243
Park, Katherine 243, 261
Parker, Deborah 166, 242, 256, 261, 270
Parronchi, Alessandro 243
Pasquini, Emilio 127, 264
Pastore Stocchi, Manlio 239
Patota, Giuseppe 264
Paul II, pope 143
Paul of Middelburg 218
Pazzi conspiracy 167
Penelope 34
Persius 2, 223, 224, 226
Perugia 406
Peterson, Erik 256
Petracco, ser 33, 34
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 1, 4, 16, 21, 24–25, 27, 28, 30, 32–41, 46, 47, 50, 51–52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62–66, 72, 76, 79, 84, 91, 106, 113, 116, 129, 130, 138, 139, 140, 152, 156, 160, 177, 178, 185, 209, 236, 237
alterity from Dante 51
attacks Avveroists 73
conceptualization of history 33
construction of his Florentiness 52
critical attitude towards Dante 24, 33–40, 82, 232
criticizes scholasticism 177
defence of poetry in 31, 64
first printing of vernacular works 242
imitation of Dante in Latin works 33–34, 39, 243, 251
imitation of Dante in vernacular works 38–39
influence on later humanist attitudes to Dante 40
legendary status as dantista 52
on Dante’s use of vernacular 34–37, 41, 51, 61, 233
on incompleteness of Statius’ Achilleid 40, 228, 251
representation in visual arts with Dante 52
revises Dante on Dido, Plato, and Ulysses 39, 40, 251
superiority of Latin 35, 55
works: Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) 37, 38, 39, 138, 250;
Rerum familiares libri XXIV (X, 4) 31, 264;
(XVIII, 5) 253;
(XXI, 15) 32–37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 51, 52, 55, 58, 61, 84, 249, 250, 253;
(XVIII, 5);
Rerum memorandarum libri 37, 250;
Seniles (IV, 5) 255;
(V, 2) 37, 249;
(IX, 17) 251;
Trionfi 38, 39, 40, 140, 151, 209, 250, 251, 266
see also Benvenuto da Imola; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Bruni, Leonardo; Comento sopra la Comedia; Dante Alighieri: deficiencies in Latin language/culture; Greek: etymology of ‘poet’; Landino, Cristoforo; Manetti, Gianozzo; Pico della Mirandola; rebirth/renaissance; Salutati, Coluccio; terza rima
Petrocchi, Giorgio 8, 241, 245, 255, 256
Petrucci, Armando 241, 254
Piana, Celestino 241, 253
Pico dalla Mirandola 266
letter comparing Lorenzo de’ Medici to Dante and Petrarch 266
Picone, Michelangelo 240, 245, 251, 282
Piemontesi, Ludovico and Alberto 242
Pier delle Vigne 139
Pierozzi, Antonino (Bishop of Florence) 253
Pietro Alighieri 45, 48, 57, 73, 74, 108, 194, 209, 213, 216–17, 220, 222, 224, 235, 241
Dante commentary: Comentum 200, 209, 223, 248, 262, 278, 279, 280–81
Pintor, Fortunato 242
Pisistratus 138
Pistolesi, Elena 242
Plato 107, 112, 142, 144, 145, 146, 180, 183, 186, 187, 199–211, 224
furor poeticus in 118, 156, 186
myth of Er in 108
works: Crito 200;
Gorgias 200;
Ion 187, 200, 274;
Laws 200;
Letters 200;
Parmenides 200;
Phaedo 200, 207;
Phaedrus 118, 187, 200, 274;
Republic 108, 200;
Symposium 146, 156, 183, 200;
Timaeus 200
see also Aristotle; Comento sopra la Comedia; Dante Alighieri: as Platonist; Ficino Marsilio; Palmieri, Matteo; Petrarch; Platonism; Virgil: as Platonist
Platonism (Platonic tradition, Neoplatonism, Neoplatonists) 128, 142, 179, 199–211
adapted to Christianity 201–2, 203, 210
body as prison in 186
descensus ad inferos 108, 202
descent of soul into body in 108, 111, 201, 205–7
Phaedran chariot in 202
pre-existence of soul in 150, 205
revival in 15C Florence 134, 135, 145, 151, 179, 183, 204, 234
Two Venuses in 202, 204
Plautus 2, 184, 224
Pletho, George Gemistus 210
work: De differentiis platonicae atque aristotelicae disciplinae 210
Pliny the Elder 180, 181, 227, 279;
work: Historia Naturalis: 180, 212;
its popularity with humanists 277
see also Landino, Cristoforo: works
Plutarch 112
work: Lives 115
Poliziano, Angelo 134, 138–41, 150–56, 163, 185, 236
Dante mistakes Statius’ birthplace in 227, 283
polemic with Cristoforo Landino 139, 236
imitation of Dante in vernacular and Latin: Epistola 139–40;
Stanze 152–54;
Sylva in Scabiem 154–56
imitation of Dante’s Earthly Paradise/Purgatorio 152, 269
philological commentary in 195
poetic theory/defence of poetry in 152
use of Greek and Latin intertexts in 152, 155
works: Commento alle Selve 283;
Epistola to Raccolta Aragonese 138–40, 178, 266;
Stanze per la giostra di Giuliano de’ Medici 151–54, 269;
Sylva in Scabiem 151, 154–55, 269
see also Benvenuto da Imola
Polizzotto, Lorenzo 284
prisca theologia see Ficino, Marsilio
Priscian, see Institutiones
Procaccioli, Paolo 166, 175, 213, 270, 272, 275, 276, 277, 279, 281, 282, 284
Propertius 2, 224, 226, 281
Ptolemy 212
work: Geographia 212, 277
see also Berlinghieri, Francesco
Pucci, Antonio 248
Pulci, brothers 147
Pulci, Luca 268
Pulci, Luigi 156, 268
Pulsoni, Carlo 247, 249
Pythagoreanism 106, 148, 179
Quint, David 260
Quintilian 56, 104, 105, 190
work: Institutio oratoria 105, 250, 261, 274
Rabelais, François 49
Raccolta Aragonese 138–41, 151, 158, 160, 248
Dante’s works in 139
rebirth/renaissance
applied to Dante 2–4, 28, 70–71, 91, 92, 133, 138, 177, 178, 265
applied to Bruni 105, 261
applied to Florence 88, 105
applied to Florentine sculpture 105
applied to Petrarch 33, 85, 177
reception, theory of 6–7
Renaudet, Augustin 239
Resta, Gianvito 239
Rheinfelder, Hans 244
Ricci, Corrado 249
Ricci, Pier Giorgio 247, 258, 261, 266
Riccucci, Maria 251
Richardson, Brian 242, 284
Rinuccini, Alemanno 133
Rinuccini, Cino 78–82, 87, 88, 92, 101
critique of Florentine humanism
praises Dante’s scholastic qualities 82
works: Invettiva 78–83, 87, 89, 91;
Risponsiva 78, 87, 257, 258
Rizzo, Silvia 255
Robin, Diana 260
Rocco, Flavia 253
Rochon, André 269
Roddewig, Marcella 8, 241, 242–45
Rome
development as humanist centre 133
see also Florence
Ronto, Matteo 241, 268
Rose, Paul Lawrence 273
Rossi, Aldo 245, 249, 267
Rossi, Luca Carlo 252, 253, 270, 283
Rossi, Roberto de’ 83, 85
Rossi, Vittorio 245
Roush, Sherry 284
Rubinstein, Nicolai 257, 258
Ruini, Roberto 256
Russo, Vittorio 252
Sabbadini, Remigio 280, 282, 283
Sacchetti, Franco 35, 104
work: Il Trecentonovelle 243, 248
Sallust 69, 281
Salutati, Coluccio 56–69, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 101, 132, 171, 172, 178, 185, 233, 236, 243
attitude to monarchy 67
Chancellor of Florence 56
Dante-Petrarch comparison(s) in 58, 63
defence of poetry 64, 74, 86, 188, 243, 255
defender of Dante 57, 78
humanism of 56–57
humanistic/classicizing treatment of Dante 58–59, 62, 63, 82, 105, 233
Latin translations of Dante 57, 60, 65, 66, 254
letter on Latin literature 60
on spelling of Dante’s family name 62–63
on vernacular (especially in Dante) 57, 61, 121, 233
on Virgil’s birth under Julius Caesar (Inf. I, 70) 59, 74, 228
public letters 56–57
textual emendation of Comedy 62, 69
use of Dante as doctrinal source 57, 65
vernacular verse 57
works: De fato et fortuna; 57, 60, 65–66, 87, 255, 256;
De laboribus Herculis 57, 63–65, 88, 188, 223, 251, 256, 264, 274;
De tyranno 57, 66–69, 256;
Epistolario (epistolography) 58–63, 254, 255, 256;
Invectiva in Antonium Luschum Vicentinum 63, 68, 69, 255, 273;
his vernacular verse 254
see also Benvenuto da Imola; Bruni, Leonardo; Brutus and Cassius debate; Dante Alighieri: surpasses ancient writers; Florence: founded by Sulla; Greek: etymology of ‘poet’
Sandkühler, Bruno 242, 245
Santagata, Marco 251
Santini, Emilio 259
Santoro, Mario 266
Sardi, Tommaso 150
work: De anima peregrina 268
Savonarola, Girolamo 237
Scapecchi, Piero 269
scholasticism
see Bruni, Leonardo; Dante Alighieri; Petrarch, Rinuccini, Cino
Scott, William O., 274
science (natural philosophy)
see also Comento sopra la Comedia; Dante Alighieri; Florence
Segre, Cesare 267
Selvaggia 38
Seneca 56, 64, 281
works: Hercules furens 64;
Hercules oeteus 64
Sennuccio del Bene 38
Sermartelli, Bartolomeo 248
Servius 27, 30, 226
Shaw, Prudence 267
Sicilian, school of poetry (Sicilians) 138, 140
Siegel, Jerrold 87, 259
Silvestri, Domenico 256
Sixtus IV, pope 167
Socrates 116
Sottili, Agostino 282
Spain 3
Stadter, Philip A., 253, 258
Staico, Ubaldo 265
Statius 29, 75, 120, 155
conversion to Christianity (in Dante) 3
error regarding birthplace (in Dante) 3, 227
views on incompleteness of Achilleid (in Dante) 228
works: Silvae 227, 228;
Thebaid 119; (XII, 816–19) 255
see also Comento sopra la Comedia: on Statius as Tolosan; Petrarch; Poliziano, Angelo
Stinger, Charles L., 253
Storey, Christina 268
Strabo 212, 224
work: Geographia 277
Strozzi, Palla 98
Suetonius 26
Tacitus 280
Tagliabue, Mauro 241
Tanturli, Giuliano 142, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 266, 267, 268, 269
Tasso, Torquato 258
Tavoni, Mirko 122, 264, 266, 267
Taylor, Karla 283
Tedaldi, Bartolino 156
Terence 2, 184, 214–224
terza rima
imitation after Dante 11, 150, 246
in Dante 5–6, 240
in Boccaccio 39, 245
in Lorenzo de’ Medici 156, 158
in Matteo Palmieri 147, 148
in Petrarch 39
Theophrastus 227
Thompson, David 182, 263, 266, 273
Tomè Marcassa, Paola 281
Torini, Agnolo 258
Toscanelli, Paolo (Florentine Paolo) 176, 192, 221
Toussaint, Stéphane 274
Traversari, Ambrogio 83, 97, 98, 178, 224
Trinkaus, Charles 255, 281
Trissino, Giovan Giorgio 242
Trovato, Paolo 251, 260, 263
Uberti, Maria Luisa 253
Ullman, B. L., 253, 254, 255, 258
Universal Judgement 49
Ursolo, Lucius Statius 227
Vallone, Aldo 247, 254
Varese, Claudio 243
Vasari, Giorgio 192, 274
Vasoli, Cesare 143, 242, 253, 259, 265, 267, 274, 276
Veglia, Marco 247
Venchi, Innocenzo 253
Vergerio, Pier Paolo 57, 83
Verino, Ugolino 147, 268
works: Paradisus 147;
Carlias 147
Veronese, Guarino 277
Velli, Giuseppe 251
vernacular
and Florence 56
status raised in Medici Florence 16, 97, 131, 134–60
used by Italian princes 132, 179
viewed as inferior to Latin and Greek by humanists 55
volgarizzamenti (vernacular versions of Latin and Greek texts) 134, 135, 141–46, 163
see also Alberti, Leon Battista; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Bracciolini, Poggio; Bruni, Leonardo; Dante Alighieri; Ficino, Marsilio; Florence; humanism; Landino, Cristoforo; Medici, Lorenzo de’; Palmieri, Matteo; Petrarch; Poliziano, Angelo; Salutati, Coluccio; Villani, Filippo; women
Vespasiano di Bisticci 99
Le vite 258, 261, 268
Vespucci, Nastagio 156, 157
Villani, Filippo 10, 12, 69–76, 77, 78, 82, 88, 92, 108, 132, 133, 177, 180, 233, 235, 241, 253
allegorism in 72–73, 74–75
biographer of Dante 70–72
defence of poetry in 73, 92
influence on later Florentine writers/ artists 70, 72, 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 257
on Dante’s civic commitment 72, 173
on Dante’s family name 69
on Dante’s preference for vernacular 75–76, 82
on Virgil’s birth under Julius Caesar (Inf. I, 70) 74–75
public reader of Dante 69, 99, 243
textual emendation of Comedy 69–70
use of Dante’s minor works 256
works: De origine civitatis Florentie et eiusdem famosis civibus 63, 70–72, 75, 105, 132, 140, 175, 176, 178, 180, 257, 264, 271;
(vernacular version) 142, 257;
Expositio seu Comentum super Comedia Dantis Allegherii (Dante commentary) 9, 69, 70, 71–72, 76, 78, 121, 256, 257, 258, 262, 275
Villani, Giovanni 75, 111, 116, 173
Nuova cronica (presentation of Dante in) 243, 248, 259, 271, 283
Villani, Matteo 69
Vindelino da Spira 242
1477 printed edition of Comedy 173, 242, 248
Vineis, Edoardo 264
Virgil 29, 31, 35, 37, 48, 68, 75, 89, 107, 109, 111, 120, 155, 177, 184, 192, 223, 225, 226, 281
allegorical interpretations of Dante’s 81, 198, 258
as Platonist 145, 170, 276
birth under Julius Caesar (according to Dante) 2–3
classical biographies of 27
compared with Dante 29, 35, 73–74, 80–81, 82, 84, 108, 129, 185, 199
Dante’s own knowledge/imitation of 2, 3, 48, 84, 197, 226, 257
dream of his pregnant mother 26
in the Comedy 2, 156, 214
works: Aeneid 48, 89, 119, 170, 191, 225, 226;
(I 300–02) 274;
(VI) 108;
(VI, 612–13) 67;
(allegorization of) 74;
(Nisus and Euryalus in) 109;
(meeting of Aeneas and Anchises in) 191;
Georgics 226, 229;
Eclogues: (Fourth Eclogue) 217, 240
see also Benvenuto da Imola; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Comento sopra la Comedia; Landino, Cristoforo; Salutati, Coluccio; Villani, Filippo
Visconti, Filippo Maria, Duke of Milan 114
Viti, Paolo 258, 260, 262, 263, 264
Walker, D. P., 267
Weinstein, Donald 257
Weiss, Roberto 239, 253
Wesselofsky, Alexander 254
Wigodsky, Michael 254
Wilcox, Donald L., 253
Witt, Ronald 59, 62, 65, 239, 254, 255, 256, 258
Wind, Edgar 268
women 272
and the vernacular 4, 46, 240
as readers of Dante 8, 36
Woodhouse, C. M., 277
Xenophon 112
Za, Lo 11, 156, 236, 243
works: Buca di Montemorello 156;
Studio d’Atene 156
Zaccaria, Vittorio 247
Zanetti, Bartolomeo 242
Zanobi da Strada 72, 178
Zippel, Giuseppe 258, 260, 261
Zoroaster 142, 221