Introduction: Dante between "words" and "things" -- Part I: Florentine legacies and Venetian initiatives, 1481-1540 -- 1 Reading and refashioning the Comedy, 1484-1536 -- 2 Dante's verse, the De vulgari eloquentia, and the Convivio: editions and critical estimates, 1490-1532 -- Part II: Dante and Florentine Academies, 1540-95 -- 3 Dante and Florentine Academies -- 4 "His greatest partisan": Giovan Battista Gelli as public reader of Dante -- Part III: Venetian "Dantes", 1544-96 -- 5 New print commentaries: The "Espositioni" of Alessandro Vellutello and Bernardino Daniello -- 6 Dante and the Polygraphs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Printed Works of Dante, 1484-1596.
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