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Dear Carlos, Our expert for Sant'Antonino is Tom Izbicki, whereas I myself -- as much as I would love to be 'your man in Tuscany'! -- have only collected over the years a list of things that I wanted to look up in his _Historiae_, but so far have not yet touched any of his volumes. But if I do, I will not fail to look up also (and to let you know) what he has to say about Dante. If Antonino criticized the Commedia, his attitude can at least not be taken to indicate a general hostility towards Dante in 15th century ecclesiastic circles: the Franciscan Giovanni (Bertoldi) da Serravalle, bishop of Fermo and later bishop of Fano, on the instances of other high ecclesiastics translated and glossed the Commedia during the Council of Constance (ed. Marcellino da Civezza & Teofilo Domenichelli, Prato: Giacchetti, 1891), basing his gloss on the second redaction of Benvenuto da Imola's commentary; about ten years earlier (1408), a Dominican, Stephanus de Florentiae, copied and glossed the Commedia in Cod. Trivulz. 1072, olim VII (now lost, but copied in 1792 by Gian Giacomo Dionisi, Verona, Bibl. Capitolare, Capitolare 813-814-815; see Marcella Roddewig, _Dante Alighieri, Die go"ttliche Komoedie: Vergleichende Bestandsaufnahme der Handschriften_, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1984, no. 443, no. 808, p.398); in the same year (1408) a certain Benedetto, according to Batines presumably a "Benedictus de Florentia, alumnus provinciae Pisanae, filius Coenobii Florentini", wrote a Latin gloss on the Commedia preserved in ms. Durazzo 11 (written in 1454, see Roddewig, no. 357); and the Franciscan Bartolomeo da Colle (d. 1483, brother of the poet Lorenzo de' Lippi), who in 1463 was nuntius of the Marche and later became 'vicarius' of his order on Crete, is known to have been the copyist of the Commedia in Cod. Vat. 7566-67-78 and author of its Latin gloss on Paradiso 1-3 (Roddewig, no. 637 and p.388). For general studies of the reception of Dante in the 15th century I can refer you to: BIGI Emilio Dante e la cultura fiorentina del Quattrocento. In: GSLI 143 (1966), p.212-240 [GSLI = Giornale storico della letteratura italiana] DIONISOTTI Carlo Dante nel Quattrocento. In: *Atti del Congresso Internazio- nale di Studi Danteschi, 20-27 aprile 1965, vol. I, Firenze: Sansoni, 1965, p.333-378 BEC Christian Les bourgeois florentins lecteurs de Dante durant la premie\- re moitie/ du XVe sie\cle. In: BSED 18 (1970), p.17-26 [BSED = Bulletin de la Socie/te/ d'E/tudes Dantesques du Centre Universitaire Me/diterrane/en, Nice] On Serravalle's commentary see especially M. Roddewig, "Per la tradizione manoscritta dei commenti danteschi: Benvenuto da Imola e Giovanni da Serravalle", in _Benvenuto da Imola lettore degli antichi e dei moderni. At- ti del Convegno Internazionale (Imola, 26 e 27 maggio 1989)_, ed. Pantaleo Palmieri & Carlo Paolazzi, Ravenna: Longo, 1991, p.79-109 Yours, Otfried ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin tel: ++49 +30 8516675, fax: ++49 +89 6661792543, [log in to unmask] Homepage for Dante Studies: http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html Listowner of Italian-Studies: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies/ Listowner of Medieval-Religion: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%