Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy

Simon Gilson is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College. He has published extensively on Dante, Dante's reception, and the literary and philosophical culture of the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of Dante and Renaissance Florence (Cambridge, 2005) and has edited numerous volumes on science and literature, heresy and mysticism, and vernacular Aristotelianism.

• Part I. Florentine Legacies and Venetian Initiatives, 1481–1540: 1. Reading and refashioning the Comedy, 1484–1536; 2. Dante's verse, the De vulgari eloquentia, and the Convivio: editions and critical estimates, 1490–1532; Part II. Dante and Florentine Academies, 1540–1595: 3. Dante and Florentine academies; 4. 'His greatest partisan': Giovan Battista Gelli as public reader of Dante; Part III. Venetian 'Dantes', 1544–96: 5. New print commentaries: the 'espositioni' of Alessandro Vellutello and Bernardino Daniello; 6. Dante and the polygraphs.

'… this analysis of Dante's fortuna in sixteenth-century Florence and Venice offers both a valuable guide and a stimulus for future research.' Martin Eisner, Renaissance Quarterly