ALIGHIERI, JACOPO

ALIGHIERI, Jacopo. — Son of the poet, in 1325 he obtained the revocation of the sentence of banishment V. Florence in 1348. It is likely that he was, as Boccaccio relates to us, «the most fervent» in the posthumous editorial care of his «sister», the *Comedy*. Of this work he wrote an epitome in verse and, first of all, glossed the *Inferno*. Considering it, as his contemporaries did, an work of science and of faith, he strove in his commentary to explain the allegory of the three moral states of the soul. He also composed the *Dottrinale*, a poem in which questions of morals, 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 a canzone addressed to the Pope and the Emperor.