Università Roma Tre

The lives of Dante between the 14th- and the 16th-century and the portraits of the poet from the 14th century to the present

The course will focus on Dante's biographies composed between the 14th to the 16th century by Giovanni Villani, Giovanni Boccaccio, Filippo Villani, Domenico Di Bandino, Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Marcantonio Nicoletti. Dante’s iconography will furthermore be examined in its evolution from the famous portrait ascribed to Giotto and held today in the Bargello Museum to present-day representations.

- Le vite di Dante tra XIV e XVI secolo, a cura di M. BERTÉ e M. FIORILLA, Iconografia dantesca, a cura di S. CHIODO e I. VALENTE, Roma, Salerno Editrice (NECOD, vol. VII, to. IV), 2017.

Further material will be referred to and / or made available by the lecturer during the course.