Vol. 21 No. 1 (2018)
Texts and documents

A Trecento Fragment of Iacomo della Lana’s Commentary

Emilio Torchio
Università di Padova
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Published 2018-07-04

Keywords

  • Iacomo (Jacopo) della Lana,
  • commentary,
  • Divine Comedy,
  • Inferno X

Abstract

In the essay, a fourteenth century fragment of the commentary by Iacomo della Lana is critically published. It concerns the introduction and vv. 1-88 of Inferno X. It is proposed that the linguistic patina belongs to the area between the Veneto Region and the Po Valley: no clue helps to localize it more precisely. A philological study highlighting the errors in the text places this fragment within the stemma suggested by Volpi in his critical edition (2009).