Dante Alighieri (43 page)

    
17. S
TEFANO
T
ALICE DA
R
ICALDONE
; in Latin
⁸
(1474):
La Commedia di Dante Alighieri col Commento inedito di Stefano Talice da Ricaldone
, Torino, 1886; Milano, 1888 (published by order of the King of Italy, edited by Vincenzo Promis and Carlo Negroni).

    
18. C
RISTOFORO
L
ANDINO
; in Italian (1480):
Comento di Christophoro Landini fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino
. Firenze, 1481.
⁹

    
19. A
LESSANDRO
V
ELLUTELLO
; in Italian (1544):
La Comedia
di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello
. Vinegia, 1544.
¹⁰

    
20. G
IOVAN
B
ATTISTA
G
ELLI
; in Italian (between 1541 and 1563): originally printed at Florence in several volumes between 1547 and 1561; first collected edition:
Letture edite e inedite di Giovan Batista Gelli sopra la Commedia di Dante
.
¹¹
Firenze, 1887 (edited by Carlo Negroni).

    
21. B
ERNARDINO
D
ANIELLO
; in Italian (before 1560):
Dante con l' espositione di M
.
Bernardino Daniello da Lucca
,
sopra la sua Comedia dell' Inferno, del Purgatorio
,
et del Paradiso
;
nuovamente stampato
,
et posto in luce
, Venetia, 1568.

 

    
¹
See above, pp. 221-6.

    
²
See above, p. 221 note 5.

    
³
In which it is erroneously attributed to Benvenuto da Imola.

    
⁴
On this so-called translation, see C. E. Norton :
Review of a translation into Italian of the Commentary by Benvenuto da Imola on the Divina Commedia
. Cambridge, Mass., 1861.

    
⁵
Formerly attributed to Boccaccio, hence commonly known as
Il Falso Boccaccio
.

    
⁶
So described by the editor because the MS. from which it was printed is dated (but obviously in error) 1343.

    
⁷
Otherwise known as Guiniforte Barziza.

    
⁸
This is in reality little more than a transcript of Benvenuto da Imola's lectures at Bologna (see above, p. 225).

    
⁹
Many times reprinted (see above, p. 226 note 2).

    
¹⁰
Three times reprinted (see above, p. 226 note 4).

    
¹¹
In his various
Letture
(twelve in all) Gelli commented on
Inferno
, i.-xxv., and on portions of
Inferno
, xxvi.,
Purgatorio
, xvi., xxvii., and
Paradiso
, xxvi.

    
1. G
IOVANNI
V
ILLANI
(
d
. 1348): in his
Cronica
or
Istorie de
'
suoi tempi
(ix. 135
¹
); first printed at Venice, 1537. [English translation by P. H. Wicksteed (Hull, 1898).]

    
2. G
IOVANNI
B
OCCACCIO
(1313-1375):
Vita di Dante
²
; first printed at Venice, 1477 (prefixed to the edition of the
Divina Commedia
, published by Vindelin da Spira). [English translation by J. R. Smith (New York, 1901); and by P. H. Wicksteed (London, 1904).]

    
Boccaccio also inserted brief biographical notices of Dante in his
Comento sopra la Commedia
(Lezione prima), first printed at Naples (with the imprint of Florence), 1724; and in his
De Genealogia Deorum
(xv. 6), first printed at Venice, 1472 (Italian translation by Giuseppe Betussi, first printed at Venice, 1547).

    
3. A
NTONIO
P
UCCI
(
circ
.1310-circ. 1390): in his
Centiloquio
, in
terza rima
(cap. 55) (written in 1373); first printed at Florence, 1772-1775 (in vols. iii.-vi. of
Delizie degli Eruditi Toscani
, published by Padre Ildefonso da San Luigi).

    
4. B
ENVENUTO DA
I
MOLA
(
circ
.1338-1390): in Latin, prefixed
to his Commentary on the
Divina Commedia
; first printed at Florence, 1887.

    
5. M
ELCHIORRE
³
S
TEFANI
(
d
. 1403); in his
Storia Fiorentina
(Lib. vi. rub. 340); first printed at Florence, 1759 (by Mehus, in his
Vita Ambrosii Traversarii
).
⁴

    
6. F
ILIPPO
V
ILLANI
(
d
. 1404): in Latin, in his
Liber de Civitatis Florentiœ famosis Civibus
(ii. § 2); first printed at Florence, 1826.

    
7. F
RANCESCO DA
B
UTI
(1324-1406): prefixed to his Commentary on the
Divina Commedia
; first printed at Pisa, 1858.

    
8. A
NTONIO
C
ARTOLARIO
: in Latin,
⁵
appended to
De Vita ac Moribus Philosophorum veterum
; first printed at Florence, 1759 (by Mehus, in his
Vita Ambrosii Traversarii
)
⁶
(anonymous Italian translation, printed at Venice, 1521).
⁷

    
9. D
OMENICO DI
B
ANDINO
(
circ
. 1340-
circ
. 1414): in Latin, in Book v. of his
Fons memorabilium Universi
⁸
(completed about 1412); first printed at Florence, 1759 (by Mehus, in his
Vita Ambrosii Traversarii
).

    
10. S
IMONE
S
ERDINI DA
S
IENA
(otherwise known as Il Saviozzo) (
circ
. 1360-
circ
. 1419): biographical details in his poem in
terza rima
on the
Divina Commedia
(written in 1404)
⁹
; first printed at Paris, 1577 (in the
editio princeps
of Dante's
De Vulgari Eloquentia
, edited by Jacopo Corbinelli, pp. 76-81).

    
11. G
IOVANNI DEI
B
ERTOLDI
(otherwise known as Giovanni
da Serravalle) (
circ
. 1350-1445): in Latin, prefixed to his Commentary on the
Divina Commedia
(completed 16 January, 1417)
¹⁰
; first printed at Prato, 1891.

    
12. L
EONARDO
B
RUNI
(otherwise known as Leonardo Aretino) (1369-1444):
Vita di Dante
; first printed at Perugia, 1671; and at Florence, 1672. [English translations by P. H. Wick-steed (Hull, 1898); and J. R. Smith (New York, 1901).]

    
13. S
ECCO
P
OLENTONE
(
circ
. 1375-
circ
. 1448): in Latin, in his
De Scriptoribus illustribus latinœ linguœ
¹¹
; first printed at Florence, 1747 (by Mehus in his edition of Manetti's lives of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio).

    
14. S
ANT
' A
NTONINO
(1389-1459); Archbishop of Florence, 1446): in Latin, in his
Opus Historíale
: first printed at Nuremberg, 1484.
¹²

    
15. G
IANNOZZO
M
ANETTI
(1396-1459): in Latin,
Vita Dantis
(originally written in Italian); first printed at Florence, 1747.

    
16. F
LAVIO
B
IONDO
(1388-1463): in Latin, in his
Historiarum ab inclinato Romano Imperio Libri xxxi
(Dec. ii. lib. ix.) (completed about 1440); first printed at Venice, 1484; a compendium of Biondo's work was made, in Latin, by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-1464; Pope Pius II, 1458), and translated into Italian by Lucio Fauno (“Le Historie del Biondo, da la declinatione dello Imperio di Roma, insino al tempo suo, che vi corsero circa mille anni. Ridotte in compendio da Papa Pio, e tradotte per Lucio Fauno,” Venice, 1543).
¹³

    
17. Anonymous Notice, in
Cronica Generate del
1321
al
1470, at Ferrara; first printed at Milan (s.a.) (by A. Solerti, in
Le Vite di Dante
,
Petrarca e Boccaccio
,
scritte fino al secolo decimosesto
).
¹⁴

    
18. F
ILIPPO DI
C
INO
R
INUCCINI
(1392-1462);
Vita did Dante
;
¹⁵
first printed at Florence, 1779 (in
Delizie degli Eruditi Toscani
, vi. 245 ff.).
¹⁶

    
19. G
IOVANNI
M
ARIO
F
ILELFO
(1426-1480): in Latin,
Vita Dantis
; first printed at Florence, 1828.

    
20. C
RISTOFORO
L
ANDINO
(1434-1504): prefixed to his Commentary on the
Divina Commedia
; first printed at Florence, 1481.

    
21. J
ACOPO
F
ILIPPO
F
ORESTI
(commonly known as Filippo da Bergamo) (1434-1520): in Latin, in his
Supplementum Chronicarum orbis ab initio mundi usque ad annum
1482
¹⁷
; first printed at Venice, 1483 (anonymous Italian translation, printed at Venice, 1488; and another, by F. Sansovino, Venice, 1581).
¹⁸

    
22. H
ARTMANN
S
CHEDEL
(
d
.
circ
. 1500): in Latin, in his
Liber Chronicarum
¹⁹
(the famous
Nuremberg Chronicle
, the printing of which was completed under the author's supervision on 12 July, 1493); first printed at Nuremberg, 1493.

    
23. Anonymous Notice, in Latin, in the Supplement to the first Venice edition (5 September, 1494) of the
Speculum Historiale
of Vincent of Beauvais.
²⁰

    
24. J
OHANN
T
RITHEIM
(1462-1516): in Latin, in his
De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis
(c. 79)
²¹
; first printed at Basle, 1494.

    
25. R
AFAELLO
M
AFFEI DI
V
OLTERRA
(commonly known as Rafaello Volterrano) (1451-1522): in Latin,
²²
in his
Commentariorum Urbanorum Libri xxxviii
; first printed at Rome, 1506.

    
26. P
AOLO
G
IOVIO
(1485-1552); in Latin, in his
Elogia Virorum literis illustrium
; first printed at Florence, 1549.

    
27. F
RANCESCO
M
AUROLICO
(fl.
circ
. 1550): in Latin, in his supplement to the
De Poetis Latinis
of P. Crinito and P. Sampieri; first printed at Messina, 1865.
²³

    
28. G
IAMPIETRO
F
ERRETTI
(1482-1557): in Latin, in his
Vitae virorum illustrium civitatis Ravennae
; first printed at Ravenna, 1864.
²⁴

    
29. G
IROLAMO DELLA
C
ORTE
(fl.
circ
. 1560): in his
Storia di Verona lib
.
xxii
²⁵
fino al
1560; first printed at Verona, 1596.
²⁶

    
30. B
ERNARDINO
D
ANIELLO DA
L
UCCA
(
d. arc
. 1560): prefixed to his Commentary on the
Divina Commedia
; first printed at Venice, 1568.

    
31. A
LESSANDRO
V
ELLUTELLO
(
circ
. 1519-
circ
. 1590): prefixed to his Commentary on the
Divina Commedia;
first printed at Venice, 1544.

    
32. L
ODOVICO
D
OLCE
(1508-1568); prefixed to his edition of the
Divina Commedia
; first printed at Venice, 1555.

    
33. M
ATHIAS
F
LACH
F
RANCOWITZ
(known as Flaccus Illyricus) (
d
. 1575); in his
Catalogus Testium Veritatis
; first printed at Basle, 1562.
²⁷

    
34. J
ACOPO
C
ORBINELLI
(fl. 1570-1590); in the
editio princes
of Dante's
De Vulgari Eloquentia
(pp. 81-2), printed at Paris, 1577.