Did Dante write the Divine Comedy?
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Attilio Bartoli Langeli, a former professor of diplomacy and paleography at the universities of Perugia, Venice and Padua, gives a lecture entitled "Did Dante write the Divine Comedy?" He is invited by the École nationale des chartes - PSL on the proposal of Olivier Guyotjeannin, a professor of medieval diplomacy and archive science, and Marc Smith, a professor of paleography.
Dante is the author of the Divine Comedy. But how did he conceive it, create it, elaborate it? By writing it or by dictating it? Several topics are addressed to answer this question. The way Dante "wrote" it is described in the first miniatures of the Divine Comedy. Although no autographs of Dante are preserved, unlike those of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, it is nevertheless possible to understand what handwriting he used, at least for his letters. In addition, some of Dante's passages on the composition of poems in the vernacular are examined. In conclusion, it is possible that Dante dictated most, if not all, of the Comedia to his trusted amanuensis: his sons. A possibility that Dante studies have not yet given due consideration.
Bibliography
- Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Enciclopedia Dantesca, 6 volumes, Roma 1970-1978
- Giorgio Petrocchi, La Commedia secondo l’antica vulgata, Milano 1966-1967
- Emilio Pasquini, Riflessioni sul testo della Commedia dantesca, Milano 2014
- Sandro Bertelli, La tradizione della «Commedia» : dai manoscritti al testo, Firenze, L.S. Olschki, 2016