IACOPO della LANA. - Known as Lanèo, born in Bologna around 1290, died there around 1365. He is the author of a vernacular commentary 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 Graziolo, extends to the three canticles and emphasizes the allegorical sense and, even more, the literal one. Anecdotal passages and scholastic citations are frequent, especially from Aristotle and St. Thomas. From his very widely circulated work (as early as the 14th century there were 32 manuscripts and two Latin versions by Alberico da Rosciate and Guglielmo de Bernardis) much was derived by the other famous commentary called the “ottimo.”