AUTHOR: DANTE ALIGHIERI

LANGUAGE: ITALIAN

DATE: 1308-1321

PAGE #: 388

REPRODUCTION DIMENSIONS: 8.75 X 11.25IN

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HISTORY/DESCRIPTION:

This manuscript of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia contains the complete text of the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. It was copied by Giovanni Boccaccio, one of the most notable manuscripts in the collection held at the Biblioteca Riccardiana. Boccaccio illustrated the manuscript with five pen drawings in the lower margin of a series of leaves in the Inferno, which were authenticated in 1992 by the noted Florentine scholar, Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré Dal Poggetto. The manuscript also includes a brief introduction to each of the three parts of the poem. Boccaccio was an important early interpreter of Dante and in 1373, he gave a series of lectures on the poet that resulted in a major commentary known as "Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante". He was the first one to apply the epithet "Divine" to Dante's poem, Dante himself simply called it "Comedia". T

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