ALIGHIERI, PIETRO. – The poet’s firstborn son and a doctor of law, he is known to have been a judge in Verona (according to records from 1332 and 1337) and in Vicenza in 1342; he died in Treviso in 1364. The legend concerning the discovery of the final cantos of the “Paradiso” perhaps seeks to represent the care devoted to the Commedia, on which he wrote (1340) a commentary in Latin, with an exceptional abundance of citations, taking pains to compare his father’s theological propositions with the writings of the Fathers of the Church and of Scholasticism. In one of his moral songs, the seven arts exalt his father’s learning and orthodoxy; and such are likewise the aims of the commentary, after the De Monarchia, having become a political instrument, caused the accusation of heresy to tend to extend to the poem.
ALIGHIERI, PIETRO
BIBL.: V. NORMANNI, Il Commentarium, Florence 1845; N. Zingarelli, I figli di Dante, in Lectura Dantis, Florence 1923; P. Ginori Conti, Vita e opere di P. di D. A., Florence 1940.
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“ALIGHIERI, PIETRO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 539. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/alighieri-pietro.