Table of Abbreviations and List of Commentators
TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS & LIST OF COMMENTATORS
1. Dante’s works:
Conv.
Convivio
Dve
De vulgari eloquentia
Egl.
Egloghe
Epist.
Epistole
Inf.
Inferno
Mon.
Monarchia
Par.
Paradiso
Purg.
Purgatorio
Quest.
Questio de aqua et terra
Rime
Rime
Rime dub.
Rime dubbie
VN
Vita nuova
Detto
Il Detto d’Amore (“attributable to Dante”)
Fiore
Il Fiore (“attributable to Dante”)
2. Commentators on the Commedia (these texts are all either currently available or, in the case of Landino, Bennassuti, and Provenzal, should one day be available, in the database known as the Dartmouth Dante Project; dates, particularly of the early commentators, are often approximate):
Jacopo Alighieri (1322) (Inferno only)
L’anonimo lombardo (1322) (Latin) (Purgatorio only)
Graziolo de’ Bambaglioli (1324) (Latin) (Inferno only)
Jacopo della Lana (1324)
Guido da Pisa (1327) (Latin) (Inferno only)
L’Ottimo (1333)
L’anonimo selmiano (1337) (Inferno only)
Pietro di Dante (1340) (Latin) [also Inferno of 2nd & 3rd redactions]
Il codice cassinese (1350?) (Latin)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1373) (Inferno I–XVII only)
Benvenuto da Imola (1380) (Latin)
Francesco da Buti (1385)
L’anonimo fiorentino (1400)
Giovanni da Serravalle (1416) (Latin)
Guiniforto Barzizza (1440) (Inferno only)
*Cristoforo Landino (1481)
Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
Bernardino Daniello (1568)
Lodovico Castelvetro (1570) (Inferno I–XXIX only)
Pompeo Venturi (1732)
Baldassare Lombardi (1791)
Luigi Portirelli (1804)
Paolo Costa (1819)
Gabriele Rossetti (1826–40) (Inferno & Purgatorio only)
Niccolò Tommaseo (1837)
Raffaello Andreoli (1856)
*Luigi Bennassuti (1864)
Henry W. Longfellow (1867) (English)
Gregorio Di Siena (1867) (Inferno only)
Brunone Bianchi (1868)
G. A. Scartazzini (1874; but the 2nd ed. of 1900 is used)
Giuseppe Campi (1888)
Gioachino Berthier (1892)
Giacomo Poletto (1894)
H. Oelsner (1899) (English)
H. F. Tozer (1901) (English)
John Ruskin (1903) (English; not in fact a “commentary”)
John S. Carroll (1904) (English)
Francesco Torraca (1905)
C. H. Grandgent (1909) (English)
Enrico Mestica (1921)
Casini-Barbi (1921)
Carlo Steiner (1921)
Isidoro Del Lungo (1926)
Scartazzini-Vandelli (1929)
Carlo Grabher (1934)
Ernesto Trucchi (1936)
*Dino Provenzal (1938)
Luigi Pietrobono (1946)
Attilio Momigliano (1946)
Manfredi Porena (1946)
Natalino Sapegno (1955)
Daniele Mattalia (1960)
Siro A. Chimenz (1962)
Giovanni Fallani (1965)
Giorgio Padoan (1967) (Inferno I–VIII only)
Giuseppe Giacalone (1968)
Charles Singleton (1970) (English)
Bosco-Reggio (1979)
Pasquini-Quaglio (1982)
*Not yet available
NB: All references to other works (e.g., Mazz.1967.1) are keyed to the List of Works Cited at the back of this volume, with the exception of references to commentaries contained in the Dartmouth Dante Project database, accessible online (telnet library.dartmouth.edu; at the prompt type: connect dante). Informational notes derived from Paget Toynbee’s Concise Dante Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante (Oxford: Clarendon, 1914) are followed by the siglum (T). References to the Enciclopedia dantesca, 6 vols. (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1970–78) are indicated by the abbreviation ED. Commentaries by Robert Hollander are (at times) shorter versions of materials found in the Princeton Dante Project, a multimedia edition of the Commedia currently including most materials relevant to Inferno (the last two cantiche are under development). Subscription (without charge to the user) is possible at www.princeton.edu/dante.