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Jacopo Alighieri

1289–1348

A poet and early commentator who helped preserve Dante’s legacy, he followed his father into exile and later became one of the first readers to explain the Divine Comedy. He is best remembered for the Dottrinale, a didactic work in sixty chapters.

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Chiose alla cantica dell'Inferno di Dante Alighieri pubblicate per la prima volta in corretta lezione con riscontri e fac-simili di codici, e precedute da una indagine critica

Chiose alla cantica dell'Inferno di Dante Alighieri pubblicate per la prima volta in corretta lezione con riscontri e fac-simili di codici, e precedute da una indagine critica

by Jacopo Alighieri

About the author

Born in Florence around 1289, Jacopo Alighieri was the son of Dante Alighieri and Gemma Donati. He shared in the upheaval of his father’s exile and is known as part of the family circle that helped carry Dante’s work into the next generation.

Jacopo is remembered both as a poet and as one of the earliest commentators on the Divine Comedy. His best-known original work is the Dottrinale, a moral and instructive poem divided into sixty chapters.

He died in 1348. Although he is often introduced simply as Dante’s son, Jacopo matters in his own right for helping preserve, interpret, and extend one of the central literary traditions of medieval Italy.