Gilson, Simon A. (2009) Reading the Convivio from Trecento Florence to Dante's Cinquecento commentators. Italian Studies, Vol.64 (No.2). pp. 266-295. doi:10.1179/007516309X12523346148262

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Abstract

This article investigates the reception of Dante's Convivio in Italy between c. 1334 and 1570. It gives an account of the presence of the treatise in the Trecento tradition of Dante commentary and in a variety of other Trecento and Quattrocento writings. It then pays particular attention to the printed editions of the treatise and their use by the major sixteenth-century Dante commentators and public readers of the poem (Alessandro Vellutello, Giovan Battista Gelli, Bernardino Daniello, Lodovico Castelvetro). The article explores both the Florentine and extra-Florentine reception of the treatise, the impact of its material form upon reading styles, and its place as a privileged interpretive key to the Comedy in sixteenth-century Dante criticism.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian
Journal or Publication Title:	Italian Studies
Publisher:	Maney Publishing
ISSN:	0075-1634
Official Date:	2009
Dates:	Date Event 2009 Published
Volume:	Vol.64
Number:	No.2
Number of Pages:	30
Page Range:	pp. 266-295
DOI:	10.1179/007516309X12523346148262
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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