IACOPO della LANA. — Known as Lanèo, b. in Bologna ca. 1290, d. there ca. 1365. He is the author of a commentary in the vernacular on *La Comedia* by 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 Graziolo, extends to all three canticles and emphasizes the allegorical sense and even more the literal one. Frequent are the anecdotal passages and the scholastic citations, especially from Aristotle and 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.”