IACOPO DELLA LANA. - Called il Lanèo, born in Bologna ca. 1290, died there ca. 1365. He is the author of a commentary in the vernacular on La Comedia di Dante degli Allighieri (1st ed., Venice 1477; new ed. in 3 vols. edited by L. Scarabelli, Bologna 1867), composed around 1328, perhaps in Venice.

His exegesis, which came after that of Iacopo di Dante and of Graziolo, extends to all three cantiche and emphasizes the allegorical sense and even more the literal one. Anecdotal passages and scholastic quotations are frequent, especially from Aristotle and from St. Thomas. From his very widely circulated work (already in the 14th century there existed 32 manuscripts and two Latin versions by Alberico da Rosciate and Guglielmo de Bernardis) much was derived by the other famous commentary known as the "ottimo".

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BIBL.: L. Rocca, Di alcuni commenti della Commedia, Florence 1891, pp. 145-54; A. Fiammazzo, Le versioni latine del Lanèo, in Bull. d. Società dantesca, new series, 9 (1902), p. 132; E. Cavallari, La fortuna di Dante nel Trecento, Florence 1921, pp. 185-190; F. Schmidt Knatz, Sul commento Lanèo, in L'Archiginnasio, 26 (1931), pp. 177-91.

Giovanni Fallani

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