ALIGHIERI, PIETRO. - Firstborn son of the poet, doctor of law, known to us as a judge in Verona (from records of 1332 and 1337) and in Vicenza in 1342; d. at Treviso in 1364. The legend about the discovery of the last cantos of the «Paradiso» perhaps represents the care he devoted to the Commedia, on which he wrote (1340) a commentary in Latin, with a singular abundance of citations, taking pains to compare his father's theological propositions with the writings of the Church Fathers and of the Scholastics. The seven arts extol, in one of his moral canzoni, his father's learning and orthodoxy; and similar are the aims of the commentary, after the charge of heresy, following upon the De Monarchia, which had become a political instrument, tended to extend to the poem.
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Alighieri, Pietro
Also known as: Latin: Petrus Alighieri
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 885.
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Aurigemma, Marcello. “Alighieri, pietro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 885. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alighieri-pietro.
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Aurigemma, Marcello. “Alighieri, pietro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 885. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alighieri-pietro.
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author = {Aurigemma, Marcello},
title = {Alighieri, pietro},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {885},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/alighieri-pietro}
}
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