Nearly three decades after discovering an overlooked Dante manuscript while pursuing graduate studies at Harvard University, Michelangelo La Luna, professor of Italian at the University of Rhode Island, has published the first modern scholarly edition of one of the earliest vernacular commentaries on the Divine Comedy.
The volume, Falso Boccaccio. Chiose alla ‘Commedia’ di Dante Alighieri contenute nel manoscritto MS Ital 54 Houghton Library, Harvard University (False Boccaccio. Chiose alla Commedia di Dante Alighieri contained in the manuscript MS Ital. 54, Houghton Library, Harvard University), is the culmination of nearly thirty years of philological research and offers new perspectives on one of the most intriguing and long-debated texts in Dante studies.
