Luca Azzetta studied under Giuseppe Billanovich at the Università Cattolica of Milan, taking his degree with a thesis on vernacular translations of the first ten books of Livy. He is Associate Professor in Philology of Italian Literature at the University of Florence. He is a member of the executive committee of the Centro Pio Rajna for research in linguistics, philology and literature; of the organising and advisory committee of the Pontifical Council for Culture for the Dante Septicentennial; and of the college of instructors of the PhD course in Philology, Italian Literature and Linguistics, which is currently offered at the University of Florence. He is also co-editor of the journal Rivista di Studi danteschi. Sonia Chiodo took her degree at the University of Florence with a thesis on Late Gothic painting in Florence, under the direction of Mina Gregori. She is Associate Professor of Mediaeval Art History at the University of Florence as well as director of the association ‘Corpus della Pittura Fiorentina’. Teresa De Robertis studied under Emanuele Casamassima at the University of Florence, graduating with a thesis on Roman writing. She is Professor of Latin Palaeography and of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Florence. She has taught at the University of Ferrara and at the Palaeography School of the Florence State Archives. She coordinates the PhD programme in Historical Studies at the Universities of Florence and Siena.

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• PresentationsLuca Azzetta, Sonia Chiodo, Teresa De Robertis, IntroductionSonia Chiodo, Dante, Giotto and the “Comedy” Fragments of a possible discourse in the paintings of the Podestà ChapelAndrea De Marchi, Giotto “magister et gubernator” in the service of the city. His school and the reconstruction of Florentine communal identity following the 1333 floodAndrea Zorzi, Events in Florence between Dante’s convictionand the expulsion of the Duke of Athens Luca Azzetta, Dante’s return to FlorenceGiuliano Milani, Florence, Giovanni Villani, and Dante in the second quarter of the 14th centuryTeresa De Robertis, Dante as a bookGiovanna Frosini, Stability and change in the language of Florence before the plagueCATALOGUEPlaces of condemnation, time for redemptionSonia Chiodo, Justice and charity, condemnation and nemesisDante and the Comedy in Florence in the 1330s and 1340sFrancesca Pasut, The invention of a canonArtists and scribes of the ComedyIII.1 Sonia Chiodo, Stories told through images by Pacino di Bonaguida and the Master of the Dominican EffigiesIII.2 Teresa De Robertis, Francesco di ser Nardo da BarberinoIII.3 Irene Ceccherini, A widespread scriptorium: scribes and notariesReading Dante in Florence IV.1. Andrea Mazzucchi, Florentine commentaries: from the “Chiose Palatine” to Andrea LanciaIV.2. Marco Petoletti, Circulation of books and reading of the classics (alongside the “Comedy”)The construction of memoryMonica Berté, The biography of Dante: history and legendThe language of documents in Florence after DanteGiovanna Frosini, Florentine texts relating to the market, arts and sciences after Danteatlas. The paintings in the Podestà ChapelBibliographical references 351Index of manuscripts and archive documents371Index of names and anonymous worksPhotographic credits

Luca Azzetta studied under Giuseppe Billanovich at the Università Cattolica of Milan, taking his degree with a thesis on vernacular translations of the first ten books of Livy. He is Associate Professor in Philology of Italian Literature at the University of Florence. He is a member of the executive committee of the Centro Pio Rajna for research in linguistics, philology and literature; of the organising and advisory committee of the Pontifical Council for Culture for the Dante Septicentennial; and of the college of instructors of the PhD course in Philology, Italian Literature and Linguistics, which is currently offered at the University of Florence. He is also co-editor of the journal Rivista di Studi danteschi. Sonia Chiodo took her degree at the University of Florence with a thesis on Late Gothic painting in Florence, under the direction of Mina Gregori. She is Associate Professor of Mediaeval Art History at the University of Florence as well as director of the association ‘Corpus della Pittura Fiorentina’. Teresa De Robertis studied under Emanuele Casamassima at the University of Florence, graduating with a thesis on Roman writing. She is Professor of Latin Palaeography and of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Florence. She has taught at the University of Ferrara and at the Palaeography School of the Florence State Archives. She coordinates the PhD programme in Historical Studies at the Universities of Florence and Siena.

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• PresentationsLuca Azzetta, Sonia Chiodo, Teresa De Robertis, IntroductionSonia Chiodo, Dante, Giotto and the “Comedy” Fragments of a possible discourse in the paintings of the Podestà ChapelAndrea De Marchi, Giotto “magister et gubernator” in the service of the city. His school and the reconstruction of Florentine communal identity following the 1333 floodAndrea Zorzi, Events in Florence between Dante’s convictionand the expulsion of the Duke of Athens Luca Azzetta, Dante’s return to FlorenceGiuliano Milani, Florence, Giovanni Villani, and Dante in the second quarter of the 14th centuryTeresa De Robertis, Dante as a bookGiovanna Frosini, Stability and change in the language of Florence before the plagueCATALOGUEPlaces of condemnation, time for redemptionSonia Chiodo, Justice and charity, condemnation and nemesisDante and the Comedy in Florence in the 1330s and 1340sFrancesca Pasut, The invention of a canonArtists and scribes of the ComedyIII.1 Sonia Chiodo, Stories told through images by Pacino di Bonaguida and the Master of the Dominican EffigiesIII.2 Teresa De Robertis, Francesco di ser Nardo da BarberinoIII.3 Irene Ceccherini, A widespread scriptorium: scribes and notariesReading Dante in Florence IV.1. Andrea Mazzucchi, Florentine commentaries: from the “Chiose Palatine” to Andrea LanciaIV.2. Marco Petoletti, Circulation of books and reading of the classics (alongside the “Comedy”)The construction of memoryMonica Berté, The biography of Dante: history and legendThe language of documents in Florence after DanteGiovanna Frosini, Florentine texts relating to the market, arts and sciences after Danteatlas. The paintings in the Podestà ChapelBibliographical references 351Index of manuscripts and archive documents371Index of names and anonymous worksPhotographic credits

Luca Azzetta studied under Giuseppe Billanovich at the Università Cattolica of Milan, taking his degree with a thesis on vernacular translations of the first ten books of Livy. He is Associate Professor in Philology of Italian Literature at the University of Florence. He is a member of the executive committee of the Centro Pio Rajna for research in linguistics, philology and literature; of the organising and advisory committee of the Pontifical Council for Culture for the Dante Septicentennial; and of the college of instructors of the PhD course in Philology, Italian Literature and Linguistics, which is currently offered at the University of Florence. He is also co-editor of the journal Rivista di Studi danteschi. Sonia Chiodo took her degree at the University of Florence with a thesis on Late Gothic painting in Florence, under the direction of Mina Gregori. She is Associate Professor of Mediaeval Art History at the University of Florence as well as director of the association ‘Corpus della Pittura Fiorentina’. Teresa De Robertis studied under Emanuele Casamassima at the University of Florence, graduating with a thesis on Roman writing. She is Professor of Latin Palaeography and of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Florence. She has taught at the University of Ferrara and at the Palaeography School of the Florence State Archives. She coordinates the PhD programme in Historical Studies at the Universities of Florence and Siena.

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• PresentationsLuca Azzetta, Sonia Chiodo, Teresa De Robertis, IntroductionSonia Chiodo, Dante, Giotto and the “Comedy” Fragments of a possible discourse in the paintings of the Podestà ChapelAndrea De Marchi, Giotto “magister et gubernator” in the service of the city. His school and the reconstruction of Florentine communal identity following the 1333 floodAndrea Zorzi, Events in Florence between Dante’s convictionand the expulsion of the Duke of Athens Luca Azzetta, Dante’s return to FlorenceGiuliano Milani, Florence, Giovanni Villani, and Dante in the second quarter of the 14th centuryTeresa De Robertis, Dante as a bookGiovanna Frosini, Stability and change in the language of Florence before the plagueCATALOGUEPlaces of condemnation, time for redemptionSonia Chiodo, Justice and charity, condemnation and nemesisDante and the Comedy in Florence in the 1330s and 1340sFrancesca Pasut, The invention of a canonArtists and scribes of the ComedyIII.1 Sonia Chiodo, Stories told through images by Pacino di Bonaguida and the Master of the Dominican EffigiesIII.2 Teresa De Robertis, Francesco di ser Nardo da BarberinoIII.3 Irene Ceccherini, A widespread scriptorium: scribes and notariesReading Dante in Florence IV.1. Andrea Mazzucchi, Florentine commentaries: from the “Chiose Palatine” to Andrea LanciaIV.2. Marco Petoletti, Circulation of books and reading of the classics (alongside the “Comedy”)The construction of memoryMonica Berté, The biography of Dante: history and legendThe language of documents in Florence after DanteGiovanna Frosini, Florentine texts relating to the market, arts and sciences after Danteatlas. The paintings in the Podestà ChapelBibliographical references 351Index of manuscripts and archive documents371Index of names and anonymous worksPhotographic credits