ALIGHIERI, JACOPO

ALIGHIERI, JACOPO. - Son of the poet, he obtained in 1325 the revocation of the sentence of exile and died in Firenze in 1348. It is probable that he was, as Boccaccio relates, “the most ardent” in the posthumous editorial care of his own “sister,” the Commedia. Of this he wrote a verse epitome and was the first to annotate the Inferno. Considering it, like his contemporaries, as a work of science and faith, he endeavoured in his commentary to explain the allegory of the three moral states of the soul. He also wrote the Dottrinale, a poem in which questions of morality, physics, and politics are versified. Of interest are the recollections of certain doctrines of his father and his defences of him against the accusation of heresy, repeated in one of his canzoni addressed to the Pope and the Emperor.